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astro-ph.IM2024★ 34 cited

JWST MIRI Flight Performance: Imaging

Dan Dicken, Macarena García Marín, Irene Shivaei +37

The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) aboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) provides the observatory with a huge advance in mid-infrared imaging and spectroscopy covering the w…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 490 cited

The James Webb Space Telescope Mission

Jonathan P. Gardner, John C. Mather, Randy Abbott +1004

Twenty-six years ago a small committee report, building on earlier studies, expounded a compelling and poetic vision for the future of astronomy, calling for an infrared-optimized…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 47 cited

Spectroscopic time series performance of the Mid-Infrared Instrument on the JWST

Jeroen Bouwman, Sarah Kendrew, Thomas P. Greene +21

We present here the first ever mid-infrared spectroscopic time series observation of the transiting exoplanet \object{L 168-9 b} with the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on the Jame…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 49 cited

The quantum efficiency and diffractive image artifacts of Si:As IBC mid-IR detector arrays at 5 10 m: Implications for the JWST/MIRI detectors

Andras Gaspar, George H. Rieke, Pierre Guillard +6

Arsenic doped back illuminated blocked impurity band (BIBIB) silicon detectors have advanced near and mid-IR astronomy for over thirty years; they have high quantum efficiency (QE)…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 26 cited

MIRISim: A Simulator for the Mid-Infrared Instrument on JWST

P. D. Klaassen, V. C. Geers, S. M. Beard +18

The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), has imaging, four coronagraphs and both low and medium resolution spectroscopic modes . Being able to s…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 23 cited

The XXL Survey XXIV. The final detection pipeline

L. Faccioli, F. Pacaud, J. -L. Sauvageot +7

A well characterised detection pipeline is an important ingredient for X-ray cluster surveys. We present the final development of the XXL Survey pipeline. The pipeline optimally us…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 131 cited

The Mid-Infrared Instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope, III: MIRIM, The MIRI Imager

P. Bouchet, M. Garcia-Marin, P. -O. Lagage +34

In this article, we describe the MIRI Imager module (MIRIM), which provides broad-band imaging in the 5 - 27 microns wavelength range for the James Webb Space Telescope. The imager…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 72 cited

The Mid-Infrared Instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope, VIII: The MIRI Focal Plane System

M. E. Ressler, K. G. Sukhatme, B. R. Franklin +12

We describe the layout and unique features of the focal plane system for MIRI. We begin with the detector array and its readout integrated circuit (combining the amplifier unit cel…