Eckhard SturmMax-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial PhysicsGarching, Germany
Herschel and Planck – Space Science Talks
ESOC / Schloss Braunshardt
19/03/2009
SEEING THE WORLD IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT
HERSCHEL-PACS IN A NUTSHELL
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The PACS Consortium: 15 Institutes in 6 Countries
PACS has been designed and built by a consortium of institutes and university departments from across Europe under the leadership of Principal Investigator Albrecht Poglitsch located at Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany.
Consortium members are: Austria: UVIE; Belgium: IMEC, KUL, CSL; France: CEA, OAMP; Germany: MPE, MPIA; Italy: IFSI, OAP/OAT, OAA/CAISMI, LENS, SISSA; Spain: IAC.
Germany
Europe
France
Beligum
PACS – Industrial Partners and Funding Agencies
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Austria
Italy
http://pacs.mpe.mpg.de/ Industrial Partners & Funding Agencies
Spain
Thomas Markl GmbH
PACS – The Instrument
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PACS – The Instrument
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Imaging photometer (Camera) - two detector arrays („chips“): 512 and 2048 pixel- simultaneous imaging in two out of three colours (70, 100, 160 μm)
Spectrometer
- two detector arrays: 400 pixel each- integral field spectroscopy, i.e. images in the light of spectral lines of atoms, ions and molecules (wavelength from 57 to 210 μm)
A Photodetector Array Camera & Spectrometer
PACS – The Instrument
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PACS – The Instrument
Bluefocal plane
Photometer unitwith blue + red
focal planesand 3He cooler
Pixel
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Bolometer Arrays (Photometer)
- Two filled arrays: 64x32 Pixel (Blue) and 32x16 Pixel (Red)- Bolometer and multiplexing read-out electronics: operated at 0.3K (≈ -273°C)
PACS – The Instrument
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Spectrometer Arrays
- simultaneous 57-105 & 105-210 μm spectroscopy - two 16x25 Ge:Ga detector arrays, partially under high mechanical stress
PACS – The Instrument
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DPU
SPU BOLCDMC
DPU
SPU BOLCDECMEC
PACS – The Science
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PACS – The Science
JCMT SCUBA
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