FIRST/Planck mission

Author

Mandolesi, N. ; Villa, Fabrizio

Author_Institution

Ist. TeSRE, CNR, Rome, Italy

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

975

Abstract

FIRST/Planck is a joint programme between the fourth European Space Agency (ESA) cornerstone mission (CS4), and the third European Space Agency (ESA) medium-sized (M3), of the `Horizons 2000´ science programme. The launch is planned for the first quarter of 2007. The `Far InfraRed and Submillimetre Telescope´, FIRST will perform photometry and spectroscopy in approximately the 80-670 μm range in the far infrared and submillimetre part of the spectrum. The `Planck surveyor´, with its 1.5 meter off-axis telescope, is designed to image the anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) over the whole sky, with unprecedented sensitivity and angular resolution. The overview of the FIRST/Planck programme and the instruments description is reported with some emphasis on the telescopes used

Keywords

astronomical photometry; astronomical telescopes; infrared astronomy; infrared imaging; radiotelescopes; space research; submillimetre astronomy; submillimetre wave imaging; submillimetre wave receivers; 1.5 m; 80 to 670 micron; CS4 cornerstone mission; FIRST/Planck mission; Planck surveyor; angular resolution; cosmic microwave background radiation; cryostat; far IR and submillimetre telescope; heterodyne instrument; imaging receiver; joint ESA programme; medium-sized Horizons 2000 science programme; multi-user observatory; off-axis telescope; photometry; programme overview; spectroscopy; whole sky measurements; Extraterrestrial measurements; Helium; Image resolution; Infrared spectra; Instruments; Optical design; Payloads; Space missions; Spectroscopy; Telescopes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 1999. IMTC/99. Proceedings of the 16th IEEE

Conference_Location

Venice

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5276-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.1999.777007

Filename

777007