INFRARED SPACE-OBSERVATORY CAMERA CALIBRATION FACILITY AND PREFLIGHT CHARACTERIZATION

Authors
PERAULT M DESERT FX ABERGEL A BOULANGER F DUPRAZ C SOUFFLOT A CESARSKY CJ VIGROUX L
Citation
M. Perault et al., INFRARED SPACE-OBSERVATORY CAMERA CALIBRATION FACILITY AND PREFLIGHT CHARACTERIZATION, Optical engineering, 33(3), 1994, pp. 762-770
Citations number
1
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optical engineering → ACNP
ISSN journal
00913286
Volume
33
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
762 - 770
Database
ISI
SICI code
0091-3286(1994)33:3<762:ISCCFA>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
The camera of the Infrared Space Observatory (ISOCAM) was carefully te sted and calibrated from 1991 to 1992 in the dedicated facility instal led at Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale at Orsay, France. A large cry ostat with high-precision instrumentation was developed to provide an operation environment close to the conditions expected in orbit. The l arge amount of data obtained allows a thorough investigation of the im aging, photometric, and spectral properties of ISOCAM in all its opera tion modes, leading to the definition of hopefully optimal observing p rocedures and data-processing algorithms.