WISPIR: a wide-field imaging spectrograph for the infrared for the SPICA Observatory

Dominic J. Benford; Lee G. Mundy

doi:10.1117/12.856495

5 August 2010 WISPIR: a wide-field imaging spectrograph for the infrared for the SPICA Observatory

Dominic J. Benford, Lee G. Mundy

Proceedings Volume 7731, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave; 77310T (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856495
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We have undertaken a study of a far infrared imaging spectrometer based on a Fourier transform spectrometer that uses well-understood, high maturity optics, cryogenics, and detectors to further our knowledge of the chemical and astrophysical evolution of the Universe as it formed planets, stars, and the variety of galaxy morphologies that we observe today. The instrument, Wide-field Imaging Spectrometer for the InfraRed (WISPIR), would operate on the SPICA observatory, and will feature a spectral range from 34 - 210 microns and a spectral resolving power of R=1,000 to 6,000, depending on wavelength. WISPIR provides a choice of full-field spectral imaging over a 2'×2' field or longslit spectral imaging along a 2' slit for studies of astrophysical structures in the local and high-redshift Universe. WISPIR in long-slit mode will attain a sensitivity two orders of magnitude better than what is currently available.

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Dominic J. Benford and Lee G. Mundy "WISPIR: a wide-field imaging spectrograph for the infrared for the SPICA Observatory", Proc. SPIE 7731, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 77310T (5 August 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856495

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