SOFIA-HIRMES: Looking Forward to the HIgh-Resolution Mid-infrarEd Spectrometer

Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation

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Samuel N. Richards¹  Samuel H. Moseley²  Gordon Stacey³  Matthew Greenhouse²  Alexander Kutyrev²  Richard Arendt²  Hristo Atanasoff²  Stuart Banks²  Regis P. Brekosky²  Ari-David Brown²  Berhanu Bulcha²  Tony Cazeau²  Michael Choi²  Felipe Colazo²  Chuck Engler²  Theodore Hadjimichael²  James Hays-Wehle²  Chuck Henderson⁴  Wen-Ting Hsieh²  Jeffrey Huang⁵  Iver Jenstrom²  Jim Kellogg²  Mark Kimball²  Attila Kovács⁷  Steve Leiter²  Steve Maher²  Robert McMurray¹  Gary J. Melnick⁸  Eric Mentzell²  Vilem Mikula⁹  Timothy M. Miller²  Peter Nagler²  Thomas Nikola⁴  Joseph Oxborrow^1,10  Klaus M. Pontoppidan^1,11  Naseem Rangwala^1,12  Alan Rhodes¹  Aki Roberge^1,13  Stefan Rosner^1,14  Karwan Rostem²  Nancy Rustemeyer¹  Elmer Sharp²  Leroy Sparr²  Dejan Stevanovic¹  Peter Taraschi²  Pasquale Temi^1,15  William D. Vacca¹  Jordi Vila Hernandez de Lorenzo²  Bill Wohler¹  Edward J. Wollack²  Shannon Wilks² 

[1] SOFIA Science Center, USRA, NASA Ames Research Center;NASA Goddard Space Flight Center;Department of Astronomy, Cornell University;Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Cornell University;NASA Ames Research Center;LOGYX LLC;Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Submillimeter Array;Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics;American University, Institute for Integrated Space Studies & Technology, Department of Physics;Scientific and Biomedical Microsystems;Space Telescope Science Institute;Space Science and Astrobiology Division, NASA Ames Research Center;Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Lab, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center;SETI Institute;Astrophysics Branch, NASA Ames Research Center

关键词: SOFIA;    astronomy;    infrared;    instrumentation;    high-resolution;    spectroscopy;    proto-planetary;   

DOI  :  10.1142/S2251171718400159

学科分类：天文学(综合)

来源: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

【 摘 要 】

The HIgh-Resolution Mid-infrarEd Spectrometer (HIRMES) is the 3rd Generation Instrument for the Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), currently in development at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), and due for commissioning in 2019. By combining direct-detection Transition Edge Sensor (TES) bolometer arrays, grating-dispersive spectroscopy, and a host of Fabry-Perot tunable filters, HIRMES will provide the ability for high resolution (R∼100,000), mid-resolution (R∼10,000), and low-resolution (R∼600) slit-spectroscopy, and 2D Spectral Imaging (R∼2000 at selected wavelengths) over the 25–122μm mid to far infrared waveband. The driving science application is the evolution of proto-planetary systems via measurements of water-vapor, water-ice, deuterated hydrogen (HD), and neutral oxygen lines. However, HIRMES has been designed to be as flexible as possible to cover a wide range of science cases that fall within its phase-space, all whilst reaching sensitivities and observing powers not yet seen thus far on SOFIA, providing unique observing capabilities which will remain unmatched for decades.

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