Bibcode
Poglitsch, A.; Waelkens, C.; Geis, N.; Feuchtgruber, H.; Vandenbussche, B.; Rodriguez, L.; Krause, O.; Renotte, E.; van Hoof, C.; Saraceno, P.; Cepa, J.; Kerschbaum, F.; Agnèse, P.; Ali, B.; Altieri, B.; Andreani, P.; Augueres, J.-L.; Balog, Z.; Barl, L.; Bauer, O. H.; Belbachir, N.; Benedettini, M.; Billot, N.; Boulade, O.; Bischof, H.; Blommaert, J.; Callut, E.; Cara, C.; Cerulli, R.; Cesarsky, D.; Contursi, A.; Creten, Y.; De Meester, W.; Doublier, V.; Doumayrou, E.; Duband, L.; Exter, K.; Genzel, R.; Gillis, J.-M.; Grözinger, U.; Henning, T.; Herreros, J. M.; Huygen, R.; Inguscio, M.; Jakob, G.; Jamar, C.; Jean, C.; de Jong, J.; Katterloher, R.; Kiss, C.; Klaas, U.; Lemke, D.; Lutz, D.; Madden, S.; Marquet, B.; Martignac, J.; Mazy, A.; Merken, P.; Montfort, F.; Morbidelli, L.; Müller, T.; Nielbock, M.; Okumura, K.; Orfei, R.; Ottensamer, R.; Pezzuto, S.; Popesso, P.; Putzeys, J.; Regibo, S.; Reveret, V.; Royer, P.; Sauvage, M.; Schreiber, J.; Stegmaier, J.; Schmitt, D.; Schubert, J.; Sturm, E.; Thiel, M.; Tofani, G.; Vavrek, R.; Wetzstein, M.; Wieprecht, E.; Wiezorrek, E.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 518, id.L2
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2010
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Description
The Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS) is one of the
three science instruments on ESA's far infrared and submillimetre
observatory. It employs two Ge:Ga photoconductor arrays (stressed and
unstressed) with 16×25 pixels, each, and two filled silicon
bolometer arrays with 16×32 and 32×64 pixels, respectively,
to perform integral-field spectroscopy and imaging photometry in the
60-210 μm wavelength regime. In photometry mode, it simultaneously
images two bands, 60-85 μm or 85-125 μm and 125-210 μm, over a
field of view of ~1.75'× 3.5', with close to Nyquist beam sampling
in each band. In spectroscopy mode, it images a field of 47”
× 47”, resolved into 5×5 pixels, with an instantaneous
spectral coverage of ~1500 km s-1 and a spectral resolution
of ~175 km s-1. We summarise the design of the instrument,
describe observing modes, calibration, and data analysis methods, and
present our current assessment of the in-orbit performance of the
instrument based on the performance verification tests. PACS is fully
operational, and the achieved performance is close to or better than the
pre-launch predictions.
Herschel is an ESA space observatory with science instruments provided
by European-led Principal Investigator consortia and with important
participation from NASA.