The infrared astronomical mission AKARI

By H. Murakami, H. Baba, P. Barthel, D. Clements, Marvin L. Cohen, Y. Doi, K. Enya, E. Figuerêdo, N. Fujishiro, H. Fujiwara and 83 more. 2007

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AKARI, the first Japanese satellite dedicated to infrared astronomy, was launched on 2006 February 21, and started observations in May of the same year. AKARI has a 68.5 cm cooled telescope, together with two focal-plane instruments, which survey the sky in six wavelength bands from mid- to far-infrared. The instruments also have a capability for imaging and spectroscopy in the wavelength range 2-180 mu m in the pointed observation mode, occasionally inserted into a continuous survey operation. The in-orbit cryogen lifetime is expected to be one and a half years. The All-Sky Survey will cover more than 90% of the whole sky with a higher spatial resolution and a wider wavelength coverage than that of the previous IRAS all-sky survey. Point-source catalogues of the All-Sky Survey will be released to the astronomical community. Pointed observations will be used for deep surveys of selected sky areas and systematic observations of important astronomical targets. These will become an additional future heritage of this mission.

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A HIGHLY CONSISTENT FRAMEWORK FOR THE EVOLUTION OF THE STAR-FORMING “MAIN SEQUENCE” FROM z ∼ 0–6 (2014, methodology): “E11 observe IR emission from 648 LIRGs from the CE01 sample observed with the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO; Kessler et al. 1996), AKARI (Murakami et al. 2007), and the Great Observatories All-Sky LIRG Survey (GOALS; Armus et al. 2009) from 0 < z < 0.1.”
The global gas and dust budget of the Large Magellanic Cloud: AGB stars and supernovae, and the impact on the ISM evolution (2009, background): “Groenewegen (2006) also provide theoretical relations between mass-loss rates and infrared colours for photometry from Spitzer, Two-Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) (Skrutskie et al. 2006) and AKARI (Murakami et al. 2007; Ita et al. 2008).”
AN ATLAS OF GALAXY SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS FROM THE ULTRAVIOLET TO THE MID-INFRARED (2013, methodology): “…imaging and spectroscopy from Infrared Space Observatory (ISO, Kessler et al. 1996), Spitzer Space Telescope (Werner et al. 2004), Akari (Astro-F, Murakami et al. 2007) and Wide-field Infrared Space Explorer (WISE; Wright et al. 2010), it became both important and possible to extend galaxy SED…”
Resolving the mid-infrared cores of local Seyferts (2009, methodology): “…timescale, the Infrared Camera (IRC) on Japan’sAkari3 IR satellite has several filters sensitive around the 12-µm regime, one of which (S9W) has been used for an all-sky survey more sensitive thanIRAS by an order of magnitude (Murakami et al. 2007; Onaka et al. 2007; Ishihara et al. 2008).”
THE SECOND SURVEY OF THE MOLECULAR CLOUDS IN THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD BY NANTEN. II. STAR FORMATION (2009, methodology): “Recent surveys of the Magellanic Clouds by the IR satellites, like Spitzer (e.g., Mexiner et al. 2006, “Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy’s Evolution”) and AKARI (e.g., Ita et al. 2008; Murakami et al. 2007) have been strong tools to identify younger, and lower mass YSOs (Whitney et al. 2008).”
TWO MICRON ALL SKY SURVEY PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFT CATALOG: A COMPREHENSIVE THREE-DIMENSIONAL CENSUS OF THE WHOLE SKY (2013, background): “…is considerably deeper at the ecliptic poles due to its polar orbit; see Jarrett et al. 2011), which is a major advance when compared to the now historical IRAS survey, as well as to the contemporary AKARI mission (Murakami et al. 2007), yet another orbital survey of the whole sky in the infrared.”
Star Formation in the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies (2012, background): “Three other space missions are beginning to influence this subject: the AKARImission (Murakami et al. 2007), the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission (Wright et al. 2010), and the Planck mission (Planck Collaboration et al. 2011a).”
Herschel Space Observatory - An ESA facility for far-infrared and submillimetre astronomy (2010, background): “The mission builds on earlier infrared space missions with cryogenic telescopes (the InfraRed Astronomical Satellite (IRAS, Neugebauer et al. 1984), ISO, Spitzer Space Telescope (Werner et al. 2004), and AKARI (Murakami et al. 2007)) and is designed to offer a larger telescope and to extend the spec”
The Herschel census of infrared SEDs through cosmic time (2013, unknown): “Infrared/submm surveys with IRAS (Neugebauer et al. 1984), ISO (Kessler et al. 1996), JCMT/SCUBA (Holland et al. 1999), Spitzer (Werner et al. 2004) and AKARI (Murakami et al. 2007) revealed that the early Universe was more active than previously thought, uncovering a large number of dust-enshrouded”
A far-infrared survey of bow shocks and detached shells around AGB stars and red supergiants (Corrigendum) (2011, background): “Arimatsu et al. (2011) find that the detached shell of U Ant detected with PACS is not the outermost one found with AKARI.”
THE WIDE-FIELD INFRARED SURVEY EXPLORER (WISE): MISSION DESCRIPTION AND INITIAL ON-ORBIT PERFORMANCE (2010, methodology): “The AKARI mission (Murakami et al. 2007) used an ingeneous technique to survey the mid-IR sky at 9 & 18 µm with sensitivities of 50 & 100 mJy (Ishihara et al. 2010) with better angular resolution than IRAS.”
Active galactic nuclei: what’s in a name? (2017, methodology): “The first ones were already developed for the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) mission (de Grijp et al. 1985, 1987; Leech et al. 1989), and their number has grown enormously since, with the advent, in the past decade, of the Spitzer Space Telescope (Werner et al. 2004; see, e.g. Lacy et al. 20”
Dusty Star Forming Galaxies at High Redshift (2014, background): “Far-Infrared Surveyor [FIS], 2006–2011 The Far-Infrared Surveyor on board the 68.5 cm AKARI telescope (formerly known as the ASTRO-F satellite; Murakami et al., 2007; Kawada et al., 2007) imaged the sky at 65, 90, 140, and 160 µm.”
The AKARI/IRC mid-infrared all-sky survey (2010, background): “In 2006, AKARI, the first Japanese space mission dedicated to infrared astronomical observations (Murakami et al., 2007), was launched and brought into a sunsynchronous polar orbit at an altitude of 700km.”