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The FIRBACK project is a collaboration of eight institutes aimed at using long wavelength surveys with ISO to uncover the nature of the Cosmic Far-Infrared Background. We have surveyed nearly 4 sq. deg. in three regions in the northern and…

A tremendous amount of radiation is emitted by the Interstellar Medium in the mid- and far-infrared (3-500 {\mu}m) that represents the majority of the light emitted by a galaxy. In this article we motivate ISM studies in the infrared and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-15 Bernhard Schulz , Margaret Meixner

Due to the recent dramatic technological advances, infrared interferometry can now be applied to new classes of objects, resulting in exciting new science prospects, for instance, in the area of high-mass star formation. Although…

Study of interstellar elemental depletion poses an important problem in the interstellar matter that at least a quarter of the total oxygen ($\sim 160$ ppm relative to hydrogen) is not accounted for in any known form of oxygen in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-03 Takashi Onaka , Itsuki Sakon , Takashi Shimonishi , Mitsuhiko Honda

SPICA is a mid to far infra-red space mission to explore the processes that form galaxies, stars and planets. SPICA/SAFARI is the far infrared spectrometer that provides near-background limited observations between 34 and 230 micrometers.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Russell F. Shipman , Bart Vandenbussche , Edgar Castillo-Dominguez , Alvaro Labiano , Willem Jellema , Angiola Orlando

Intensity interferometry permits very long optical baselines and the observation of sub-milliarcsecond structures. Using planned kilometric arrays of air Cherenkov telescopes at short wavelengths, intensity interferometry may increase the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Dainis Dravins , Hannes Jensen , Stephan LeBohec , Paul D. Nuñez

The Long Wavelength Spectrometer (LWS) on board the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) satellite has allowed for the first time to investigate the whole far infrared (FIR) part of the spectrum (from 43 to 197 um), inaccessible from the…

The Far-Infrared Surveyor (FIS) onboard the AKARI satellite has a spectroscopic capability provided by a Fourier transform spectrometer (FIS-FTS). FIS-FTS is the first space-borne imaging FTS dedicated to far-infrared astronomical…

Astronomers usually need the highest angular resolution possible, but the blurring effect of diffraction imposes a fundamental limit on the image quality from any single telescope. Interferometry allows light collected at widely-separated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 John D. Monnier , Ronald J. Allen

The most important cooling lines of the neutral interstellar medium (ISM) lie in the far-infrared (FIR). We present measurements by the Infrared Space Observatory Long Wavelength Spectrometer of seven lines from neutral and ionized ISM of…

We present new mid-infrared interferometric observations of the massive young stellar object IRAS 13481-6124, using VLTI/MIDI for spectrally-resolved, long-baseline measurements (projected baselines up to $\sim120$ m) and GSO/T-ReCS for…

FIRBACK is one of the deepest cosmological surveys performed in the far infrared, using ISOPHOT. We describe this survey, its data reduction and analysis. We present the maps of fields at 175 microns. We point out some first results: source…

The Far-InfraRed Spectroscopic Explorer (FIRSPEX) is a candidate mission in response to a bi-lateral Small-mission call issued by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). FIRSPEX is a small satellite (~1m…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-24 Dimitra Rigopoulou , Chris Pearson , Brian Ellison , Bruce Swinyard , Sheng-Cai Shi , Jie Hu , Martin Caldwell , Jia-Sheng Huang , the FIRSPEX Consortium

Aims. We aim to study the far-infrared radio correlation (FIRC) at 150 MHz in the local Universe (at a median redshift z~0:05) and improve the use of the rest-frame 150-MHz luminosity, L150, as a star-formation rate (SFR) tracer, which is…

Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) was launched on May 22, 2018. It carries the Laser Ranging Interferometer (LRI) as a technology demonstrator that measures the inter-satellite range with nanometer precision using…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Sujata Goswami , Samuel P. Francis , Tamara Bandikova , Robert E Spero

We present the concept for STARI: STarlight Acquisition and Reflection toward Interferometry. If launched, STARI will be the first mission to control a 3-D CubeSat formation to the few mm-level, reflect starlight over 10s to 100s of meters…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-08 John D. Monnier , Prachet Jain , Shashank Kalluri , James Cutler , Simone D'Amico , Glenn Lightsey , Leonid Pogorelyuk , Gautam Vasisht , Kerri Cahoy , Michael Meyer

MIRI, the Mid-InfraRed Instrument, is one of four instruments being built for the James Webb Space Telescope. It is being developed jointly between an European Consortium (21 institutes from 10 countries, under the auspices of ESA), and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nuria P. F. Lorente , Alistair C. H. Glasse , Gillian S. Wright

This paper will review the technical progress of interferometric infrared observing techniques from the first 2-element interferometer 25 years ago to the 3+ element arrays now coming into service. To date, only the Infrared Spatial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 John D. Monnier

The FIRBACK (Far Infrared BACKground) survey is one of the deepest imaging surveys carried out at 170 microns with ISOPHOT onboard ISO, and is aimed at the study of the structure of the Cosmic Far Infrared Background. This paper provides…