Large format HgCdTe arrays for the James Webb Space Telescope

Author

Mott, Brent ; Böker, Torsten ; Cabelli, Craig ; De Marchi, Guido ; Ferruit, Pierre ; Garnett, James ; Hill, Robert J. ; Loose, Markus ; Rauscher, Bernard J. ; Regan, Michael W. ; Waczynski, Augustyn ; Wen, Yiting ; Wong, Selmer ; Zandian, Majid ; Alexande

Author_Institution

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD

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0

fDate

0-0 0

Firstpage

38

Lastpage

39

Abstract

The near infrared spectrograph (NIRSpec) will be the James Webb Space Telescope´s (JWSTs) primary near-infrared spectrograph. NIRSpec is a multi-object spectrograph with fixed-slit and integral field modes. EADS/Astrium is building NIRSpec for the European Space Agency (ESA), with NASA providing the detector subsystem and programmable multi-aperture mask. In this presentation we present an overview of the detector subsystem (DS)

Keywords

II-VI semiconductors; astronomical telescopes; cadmium compounds; focal planes; infrared spectrometers; mercury compounds; HgCdTe; HgCdTe arrays; James Webb Space Telescope; integral field modes; near infrared spectrograph; programmable multiaperture mask; Application specific integrated circuits; Cameras; Infrared detectors; Infrared spectra; Instruments; Mirrors; NASA; Space missions; Space technology; Telescopes; Detector; HAWAII-2RG; JWST; James Webb Space Telescope; NIRSpec; SIDECAR;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

LEOS Summer Topical Meetings, 2006 Digest of the

Conference_Location

Quebec City, Que.

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0090-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOSST.2006.1694057

Filename

1694057