Origins Space Telescope: the far infrared imager and polarimeter FIP

Johannes Staguhn; Edward Amatucci; Lee Armus; Damon Bradley; Ruth Carter; David Chuss; James Corsetti; Asantha Cooray; Joseph Howard; David Leisawitz; Margaret Meixner; Samuel H. Moseley; Alexandra Pope; Joaquin Vieira; Edward Wollack

doi:10.1117/12.2312626

30 July 2018 Origins Space Telescope: the far infrared imager and polarimeter FIP

Johannes Staguhn, Edward Amatucci, Lee Armus, Damon Bradley, Ruth Carter, David Chuss, James Corsetti, Asantha Cooray, Joseph Howard, David Leisawitz, Margaret Meixner, Samuel H. Moseley, Alexandra Pope, Joaquin Vieira, Edward Wollack

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Proceedings Volume 10698, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave; 106981A (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312626
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2018, Austin, Texas, United States

Abstract

The Origins Space Telescope (OST) is the mission concept for the Far-Infrared Surveyor, one of the four science and technology definition studies of NASA Headquarters for the 2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal survey. "Concept-1" is a cold (4 K) 9 m space telescope with five instruments, while "concept 2" consists of a cold 5.9 m telescope and four instruments, providing imaging and spectroscopic capabilities between 5μm and 600μm. The sensitivity provided by the observatory will be a three to four orders of magnitude improvement over currently achieved observational capabilities, allowing to address a wide range of new and so far inaccessible scientific questions, ranging from bio-signatures in the atmospheres of exo-planets to the production of the first metals in the universe right after the end of re-ionization. Here we present the Far Infrared Imager and Polarimeter (FIP) for OST. The camera will cover four bands, 50μm, 100μm, 250μm, and 500μm. In the "concept 1" version of the instrument, FIP will allow for differential polarimetry with the ability to observe two colors simultaneously, while all four bands can be observed simultaneously in total power mode. The confusion limit in the total power mode will be reached in only 8 ms at 500μm, while at 50μm the source density in the sky is so low that at OST's angular resolution of (see manuscript for symbol) 2" in this band the source confusion limit will only be reached after about two hours of integration with the "concept-2" version of FIP ("concept-1" FIP will not be confusion limited at 50m, no matter how long it integrates). Science topics that can be addressed by the camera include, but are not limited to, galactic and extragalactic magnetic field studies, deep galaxy surveys, and outer Solar System objects.

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Johannes Staguhn, Edward Amatucci, Lee Armus, Damon Bradley, Ruth Carter, David Chuss, James Corsetti, Asantha Cooray, Joseph Howard, David Leisawitz, Margaret Meixner, Samuel H. Moseley, Alexandra Pope, Joaquin Vieira, and Edward Wollack "Origins Space Telescope: the far infrared imager and polarimeter FIP", Proc. SPIE 10698, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 106981A (30 July 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312626

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