The Spitzer Space Telescope Mission

2004

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The Spitzer Space Telescope, NASA's Great Observatory for infrared astronomy, was launched 2003 August 25 and is returning excellent scientific data from its Earth-trailing solar orbit. Spitzer combines the intrinsic sensitivity achievable with a cryogenic telescope in space with the great imaging and spectroscopic power of modern detector arrays to provide the user community with huge gains in capability for exploration of the cosmos in the infrared. The observatory systems are largely performing as expected, and the projected cryogenic lifetime is in excess of 5 years. This paper summarizes the on-orbit scientific, technical, and operational performance of Spitzer. Subsequent papers in this special issue describe the Spitzer instruments in detail and highlight many of the exciting scientific results obtained during the first 6 months of the Spitzer mission.

Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/18544f76a8c1f0ee306deb670f986fb61bf2aa4f

Citations in the corpus

• Clusters of Galaxies in the First Half of the Universe from the IRAC Shallow Survey (2008, unknown): “With the launch of the Spitzer Space Telescope in 2003 (Werner et al. 2004), sensitive infrared arrays free from foreground thermal emission were put into operation (Fazio et al. 2004a).”
• The infrared astronomical mission AKARI (2007, unknown): “AKARI has the capability to make pointed observations in addition to the All-Sky Survey, although AKARI is not a fully observatory-type mission in the same guise as the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO; Kessler et al. 1996) and the Spitzer Space Telescope (Werner et al. 2004), due to the nature of it”
• Spitzer Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud: Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy’s Evolution (SAGE). I. Overview and Initial Results (2006, unknown): “The launch of the Spitzer Space Telescope (Werner et al. 2004) with its sensitive detector arrays provides the necessary IR tools for the Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy’s Evolution (SAGE) survey, which surveys the ISM and stars and thereby traces the life cycle of baryonic matter.”
• THERMAL PHASE VARIATIONS OF WASP-12b: DEFYING PREDICTIONS (2011, unknown): “This work is based on observations made with the Spitzer Space Telescope , which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology under a contract with NASA.”
• The Stellar Mass Assembly of Galaxies from z = 0 to z = 4: Analysis of a Sample Selected in the Rest-Frame Near-Infrared with Spitzer (2007, unknown): “This paper is based on the analysis of a sample of galaxies at 0<z<4 selected in 3 different fields (to minimize cosmic variance problems) at 3.6-4.5 µm with the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC, Fazio et al. 2004b) on-board of the Spitzer Space Telescope (Werner et al. 2004).”
• Transit timing observations from Kepler - III. : Confirmation of four multiple planet systems by a Fourier-domain study of anticorrelated transit timing variations (2012, unknown): “Kepler–25c, Kepler–25b, and Kepler–26c were observed during several transits with Warm-Spitzer/IRAC (Werner et al. 2004; Fazio et al. 2004) at 4.5 µm (program ID 60028).”
• A simple model to interpret the ultraviolet, optical and infrared emission from galaxies (2008, unknown): “These include data collected in the ultraviolet by the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX, Martin et al. 2005), in the optical by the Two-degree Field Galaxy Redshift Sur- vey (Colless et al. 2001) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS, Stoughton et al. 2002), in the near-infrared by the Two Micron A”
• Nearby Debris Disk Systems with High Fractional Luminosity Reconsidered (2006, unknown): “This work is based on observations made with the Spitzer Space Telescope, which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology under a contract with NASA.”
• NEW DEBRIS DISKS AROUND YOUNG, LOW-MASS STARS DISCOVERED WITH THE SPITZER SPACE TELESCOPE (2009, unknown): “…et al. 2006; Liu et al. 2004; Weinberger et al. 2004; Song et al. 2002), the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO; de Muizon 2005; Laureijs et al. 2002; Habing et al. 2001; Spangler et al. 2001) and the Spitzer Space Telescope (Werner et al. 2004) have discovered >100 nearby stars with infrared excess.”
• SEDS: THE SPITZER EXTENDED DEEP SURVEY. SURVEY DESIGN, PHOTOMETRY, AND DEEP IRAC SOURCE COUNTS (2013, unknown): “The Spitzer Extended Deep Survey (SEDS) is an unbiased deep survey carried out by the Spitzer Space Telescope (Werner et al. 2004).”
• CRYSTALLINE SILICATES AND DUST PROCESSING IN THE PROTOPLANETARY DISKS OF THE TAURUS YOUNG CLUSTER (2007, unknown): “The great sensitivity of the Spitzer Space Telescope (Werner et al. 2004) permits the observation of large samples of spectra of YSOs that are complete at small stellar masses.”
• The SMART Data Analysis Package for the Infrared Spectrograph on the Spitzer Space Telescope (2004, unknown): “This work is based (in part) on observations made with the Spitzer Space Telescope, which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under NASA contract 1407.”
• Absolute Calibration and Characterization of the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer. I. The Stellar Calibrator Sample and the 24 μm Calibration (2007, unknown): “Like most of these missions, the instruments on board the Spitzer Space Telescope (Werner et al. 2004) are calibrated against celestial sources: for example, the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC; Fazio et al. 2004), with photometric bands from ∼ 3− 8 µm, is calibrated against stars (Reach et al. 2005),…”