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28 June 2006 FORCAST: the facility mid-IR camera for SOFIA
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We report on new development and testing of FORCAST, the Faint Object infraRed Camera for the SOFIA Telescope. FORCAST will offer dual channel imaging in discrete filters at 5 - 25 microns and 30 - 40 microns, with diffraction-limited imaging at wavelengths > 15 microns. FORCAST will have a plate scale of 0.75 arcsec per pixel, giving it a 3.2 arcmin x 3.2 arcmin FOV on SOFIA. In addition, a set of grisms will enable FORCAST to perform long slit and cross-dispersed spectroscopic observations at low to moderate resolution (R ~ 140 - 1200) in the bandpasses 4.9 - 8.1 microns, 8.0 - 13.3 microns, 17.1 - 28.1 microns, and 28.6 - 37.4 microns. FORCAST has seen first light at the Palomar 200 inch telescope. It will be available for astronomical observations and facility testing at SOFIA first flight.
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Joseph D. Adams, Terry L. Herter, Luke D. Keller, George E. Gull, Bruce Pirger, Justin Schoenwald, Marc Berthoud, Gordon J. Stacy, and Thomas Nikola "FORCAST: the facility mid-IR camera for SOFIA", Proc. SPIE 6269, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy, 626911 (28 June 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.671414
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Cameras

Mirrors

Telescopes

Sensors

Optical filters

Electronics

Space telescopes

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