2 papers
astro-ph2007
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…
astro-ph2007
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…