Supplementary information on the near-infrared spectroscopic data of the infrared camera (IRC) onboard AKARI

Ituski Sakon, Takashi Onaka, Takafumi Ootsubo, Hideo Matsuhara, Jennifer Noble

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Abstract

We have investigated the on-orbit properties of the spectroscopic data taken with NIR channel of the Infrared Camera (IRC) onboard AKARI during the phases 1, 2 and 3. We have determined the boundary shape of the aperture mask of NIR channel by using the spectroscopic data of uniform zodiacal background emission. The information on the aperture mask shape is indispensable in modeling and subtracting the spectroscopic background patterns made by the diffuse background emission such as zodiacal emission and the Galactic cirrus emission. We also have examined the wavelength dependency on the profile of the point spread function and its effect on the spectroscopic data. The obtained information is useful, for example, in reducing the spectroscopic data of a point source badly affected by bad pixels and in decomposing the overlapping spectra of sources that are aligned in the dispersion direction with a small offset the cross dispersion direction. In this paper, we summarize the supplementary knowledge that will be useful for the advanced data reduction procedures of NIR spectroscopic datasets.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSpace Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012
Subtitle of host publicationOptical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
EventSpace Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Duration: Jul 1 2012Jul 6 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume8442
ISSN (Print)0277-786X

Conference

ConferenceSpace Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityAmsterdam
Period07/1/1207/6/12

Keywords

  • AKARI satellite
  • Data reduction
  • Infrared camera
  • Infrared spectroscopy

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