Content deleted Content added
m HTTP to HTTPS for CERN Document Server, replaced: http://cds.cern.ch/ → https://cds.cern.ch/ (2) |
m +link spectrometer |
||
Line 22:
The '''Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer''' ('''NICMOS''') is a [[Measuring instrument|scientific instrument]] for [[infrared astronomy]], installed on the [[Hubble Space Telescope]] (HST), operating from 1997 to 1999, and from 2002 to 2008. Images produced by NICMOS contain data from the near-infrared part of the light spectrum.
NICMOS was conceived and designed by the NICMOS Instrument Definition Team centered at [[Steward Observatory]], [[University of Arizona]], USA. NICMOS is an imager and [[Multi-Object Spectrometer|multi-object spectrometer]] built by [[Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.]] that allows the HST to observe [[infrared light]], with [[wavelength]]s between 0.8 and 2.4 micrometers, providing imaging and slitless spectrophotometric capabilities. NICMOS contains three near-infrared detectors in three optical channels providing high (~ 0.1 arcsecond) resolution, coronagraphic and polarimetric imaging, and slitless spectroscopy in 11-, 19-, and 52-arcsecond square fields of view. Each optical channel contains a 256×256 pixel [[photodiode]] array of [[mercury cadmium telluride]] [[infrared detector]]s bonded to a sapphire substrate, read out in four independent 128×128 quadrants.<ref>{{cite journal|first1=Chris J. |last1=Skinner|first2= Louis E. |display-authors=4 |last2=Bergeron |first3=Alfred B. |last3=Schultz |first4=John W. |last4=MacKenty|first5= A. |last5=Storrs|first6= Wolfram |last6=Freudling|first7= D. |last7=Axon|first8= Howard A. |last8=Bushouse|first9= Daniela |last9=Calzetti|author9-link= Daniela Calzetti |first10= L. |last10=Colina|first11= D. |last11=Daou|first12= D. |last12=Gilmore|first13= Sherie T. |last13=Holfeltz|first14= Joan |last14=Najita|first15= Keith |last15=Noll|first16= Christine E. |last16=Ritchie|first17= William B. |last17=Sparks |first18=A. |last18=Suchkov|editor1-first=Albert M|editor1-last=Fowler|title=On-orbit properties of the NICMOS detectors on HST|journal=Proc. SPIE|volume= 3354|date=1998| doi=10.1117/12.317208 |pages=2–13 |url=http://www.stsci.edu/hst/nicmos/documents/papers/schultz_spie.pdf|series=Infrared Astronomical Instrumentation|bibcode=1998SPIE.3354....2S|s2cid=5778753}}</ref>
NICMOS last worked in 2008, <ref>{{cite web|title=HST Legacy Instruments|url=https://www.stsci.edu/hst/instrumentation/legacy|publisher=Space Telescope Science Institute|access-date=January 29, 2023}}</ref> and has been largely replaced by the infrared channel of [[Wide Field Camera 3]] after its installation in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|title=Hibernating instrument on Hubble roused as engineers ponder message problem|url=https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/05/hubble_nicmos/|publisher=TheRegister.com|access-date=January 29, 2023}}</ref>
| |||