5 papers
High-resolution Imaging of the Gegenschein and the Geometric Albedo of Interplanetary Dust
Masateru Ishiguro, Hongu Yang, Fumihiko Usui +5
We made optical observations of the Gegenschein using a liquid-nitrogen-cooled wide-field camera, Wide-field Imager of Zodiacal light with ARray Detector (WIZARD), between March 20…
The Far-Infrared Surveyor (FIS) for AKARI
Mitsunobu Kawada, Hajime Baba, Peter D. Barthel +57
The Far-Infrared Surveyor (FIS) is one of two focal plane instruments on the AKARI satellite. FIS has four photometric bands at 65, 90, 140, and 160 um, and uses two kinds of array…
The Infrared Astronomical Mission AKARI
H. Murakami, H. Baba, P. Barthel +90
AKARI, the first Japanese satellite dedicated to infrared astronomy, was launched on 2006 February 21, and started observations in May of the same year. AKARI has a 68.5 cm cooled…
The Far-Infrared Properties of Spatially Resolved AKARI Observations
Woong-Seob Jeong, Takao Nakagawa, Issei Yamamura +29
We present the spatially resolved observations of IRAS sources from the Japanese infrared astronomy satellite AKARI All-Sky Survey during the performance verification (PV) phase of…
Far-IR Detection Limits I: Sky Confusion Due to Galactic Cirrus
Woong-Seob Jeong, Hyung Mok Lee, Soojong Pak +4
Fluctuations in the brightness of the background radiation can lead to confusion with real point sources. Such background emission confusion will be important for infrared observat…