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most citedThe Infrared Astronomical Mission AKARI

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astro-ph.IM2025★ 3 cited

The Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment-2: An Intensity Mapping Optimized Sounding-rocket Payload to Understand the Near-IR Extragalactic Background Light

Michael Zemcov, James J. Bock, Asantha Cooray +37

The background light produced by emission from all sources over cosmic history is a powerful diagnostic of structure formation and evolution. At near-infrared wavelengths, this ext…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 5 cited

Surface Brightness Correction for Compact Extended Sources Observed by the AKARI Far-Infrared Surveyor (FIS) in the Slow-Scan Mode

Toshiya Ueta, R. L. Tomasino, Satoshi Takita +5

We present a general surface brightness correction method for compact extended sources imaged in the slow-scan pointed observation mode of the Far-Infrared Surveyor (FIS) aboard th…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 13 cited

High-z gamma-ray bursts for unraveling the dark ages mission HiZ-GUNDAM

Daisuke Yonetoku, Tatehiro Mihara, Tatsuya Sawano +28

We are now investigating and studying a small satellite mission HiZ-GUNDAM for future observation of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The mission concept is to probe "the end of dark ages…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 8 cited

Calibration of the AKARI Far-Infrared Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer

Noriko Murakami, Mitsunobu Kawada, Hidenori Takahashi +16

The Far-Infrared Surveyor (FIS) onboard the AKARI satellite has a spectroscopic capability provided by a Fourier transform spectrometer (FIS-FTS). FIS-FTS is the first space-borne…

astro-ph.IM2009★ 1 cited

Monolithic Ge:Ga Detector Development for SAFARI

Y. Doi, Y. Sawayama, S. Matsuura +5

We describe the current status and the prospect for the development of monolithic Ge:Ga array detector for SAFARI. Our goal is to develop a 64x64 array for the 45 -- 110 um band, o…

astro-ph.IM2009★ 43 cited

Calibration and Performance of the AKARI Far-Infrared Surveyor (FIS) -- Slow-Scan Observation Mode for Point Sources

Mai Shirahata, Shuji Matsuura, Sunao Hasegawa +11

We present the characterization and calibration of the Slow-Scan observation mode of the Far-Infrared Surveyor (FIS) onboard the AKARI satellite. The FIS, one of the two focal-plan…