The Infrared Telescope in Space (IRTS)
The IRTS is the first Japanese orbiting mission for infrared astronomy. The IRTS was equipped with a 15-cm cooled telescope and four scientific instruments :
- the Near-InfraRed Spectrometer (NIRS;
1.4-4.0 µm
) - the Mid-InfraRed Spectrometer (MIRS;
4.5-11.7 µm
) - the Far-Infrared Line Mapper (FILM;
145, 155, 158, 160 µm
) - the Far-InfraRed Photometer (FIRP;
150, 250, 400, 700 µm
)
The angular resolution of the FIRP images is 0.5 deg and units are W/m2/sr/Hz
.
Healpix maps made by D. Paradis.
References
- 'The Far-Infrared Photometer on the Infrared Telescope in Space' by Lange, A. E. et al, 1994, ApJ, 428, 384 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1994ApJ...428..384L
- 'Flight performance of the Far-Infrared Photometer (FIRP)' by Hirao, T. et al, 1996, SPIE, 2817, 276 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1996SPIE.2817..276H
Maps
250 microns : IRTS_250_1_512.fits
400 microns : IRTS_400_1_512.fits
700 microns : IRTS_700_1_512.fits
IRTS 250 | IRTS 400 | IRTS 700 |
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HiPS
IRTS HiPS are available in Aladin Collections/Image