SOFIA - HIRMES: Looking forward to the HIgh-Resolution Mid-infrarEd Spectrometer
Abstract
The HIgh-Resolution Mid-infrarEd Spectrometer (HIRMES) is the 3rd Generation Instrument for the Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), currently in development at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), and due for commissioning in 2019. By combining direct-detection Transition Edge Sensor (TES) bolometer arrays, grating-dispersive spectroscopy, and a host of Fabry-Perot tunable filters, HIRMES will provide the ability for High Resolution (R~100,000), Mid-Resolution (R~10,000), and Low-Resolution (R~600) slit-spectroscopy, and 2D Spectral Imaging (R~2000 at selected wavelengths) over the 25 - 122 {\mu}m mid-far infrared waveband. The driving science application is the evolution of proto-planetary systems via measurements of water-vapor, water-ice, deuterated hydrogen (HD), and neutral oxygen lines. However, HIRMES has been designed to be as flexible as possible to cover a wide range of science cases that fall within its phase-space, all whilst reaching sensitivities and observing powers not yet seen thus far on SOFIA, providing unique observing capabilities which will remain unmatched for decades.
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@article{arxiv.1811.11313,
title = {SOFIA - HIRMES: Looking forward to the HIgh-Resolution Mid-infrarEd Spectrometer},
author = {Samuel N. Richards and Samuel H. Moseley and Gordon Stacey and Matthew Greenhouse and Alexander Kutyrev and Richard Arendt and Hristo Atanasoff and Stuart Banks and Regis P. Brekosky and Ari-David Brown and Berhanu Bulcha and Tony Cazeau and Michael Choi and Felipe Colazo and Chuck Engler and Theodore Hadjimichael and James Hays-Wehle and Chuck Henderson and Wen-Ting Hsieh and Jeffrey Huang and Iver Jenstrom and Jim Kellogg and Mark Kimball and Attila Kovacs and Steve Leiter and Steve Maher and Robert McMurray and Gary J. Melnick and Eric Mentzell and Vilem Mikula and Timothy M. Miller and Peter Nagler and Thomas Nikola and Joseph Oxborrow and Klaus M. Pontoppidan and Naseem Rangwala and Alan Rhodes and Aki Roberge and Stefan Rosner and Karwan Rostem and Nancy Rustemeyer and Elmer Sharp and Leroy Sparr and Dejan Stevanovic and Peter Taraschi and Pasquale Temi and William D. Vacca and Jordi Vila Hernandez de Lorenzo and Bill Wohler and Edward J. Wollack and Shannon Wilks},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.11313},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
Accepted to the Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation (SOFIA Special Edition) on 11th November 2018