We discuss the capability of AKARI in recovering diffuse far-infrared emission, and examine the achieved reliability. Critical issues in making images of diffuse emission are the transient response and long-term stability of the far-infrared detectors. Quantitative evaluation of these characteristics are the key to achieving sensitivity comparable to or better than that for point sources (< 20 -- 95 MJy sr-1). We describe current activity and progress toward the production of high quality images of the diffuse far-infrared emission using the AKARI all-sky survey data.
@article{arxiv.0908.0599,
title = {Far-infrared all sky diffuse mapping with AKARI},
author = {Y. Doi and M. Etxaluze Azkonaga and Glenn J. White and E. Figueredo and Y. Chinone and M. Hattori and T. Nakagawa and C. Yamauchi and H. Shibai and the AKARI Diffuse Map team},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.0599},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages, 8 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the Conference "AKARI, a light to illuminate the misty Universe", Fukutake Hall, The University of Tokyo, Japan, 16-19 February 2009