The effects of cosmic rays and solar flares on the IRAC detectors: the first two years of in-flight operation

Joseph L. Hora, Brian M. Patten, Giovanni G. Fazio +1

The Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) is a four-channel camera on the Spitzer Space Telescope, one of three focal plane science instruments. IRAC uses two pairs of 256x256 pixel InSb an…