The Photodetector Array Camera & Spectrometer (PACS) for the Herschel Space Observatory
- Author(s)
- Albrecht Poglitsch, Christoffel Waelkens, Otto H. Bauer, Jordi Cepa, Thomas Henning, Chris A. van Hoof, Reinhard O. Katterloher, Franz Kerschbaum, Dietrich Lemke, Etienne Renotte, Louis Rodriguez, Pierre Royer, Paolo Saraceno
- Abstract
The Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS) is one of the three science instruments for ESA's far infrared and submillimetre observatory, Herschel. It employs two Ge:Ga photoconductor arrays (stressed and unstressed) with 16 × 25 pixels, each, and two filled Si bolometer arrays with 16 × 32 and 32 × 64 pixels, respectively, to perform imaging line spectroscopy and imaging photometry in the 57 - 210/œm wavelength band. In photometry mode, it will simultaneously image two bands, 60 - 85œm or 85 - 130œm and 130 - 210œm, over a field of view of ~ 1.75' × 3.5'. with full beam sampling in each band. In spectroscopy mode, it will image a field of ~ 50? × 50?, resolved into 5 × 5 pixels, with an instantaneous spectral coverage of ~ 1500km/s and a spectral resolution of ~ 75 - 300km/s. In both modes background-noise limited peformance is expected, with sensitivities (5s in 1h) of ~ 3 mJy or 3 - 10 × 10-18W/m2, respectively.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Astrophysics
- External organisation(s)
- Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre, Centre Spatial de Liege, French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario
- Volume
- 3 vols
- Pages
- 425-436
- No. of pages
- 12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1117/12.550045
- Publication date
- 2004
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103003 Astronomy
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/c869c679-6f30-4454-8d5c-e5e5dc9ab8e0