IRC (infrared camera) onboard IRIS (ASTRO-F)

Basic design and current development status of IRC, infrared camera on-board the IRIS is presented. IRC employs state-of- the-art format IR arrays for imaging and low-resolution spectroscopy at wavelength 2-25 micrometers . IRC consists of 3 cameras; NIR, MIR-S, and MIR-L. These 3 channels simultaneously observe different fields of the sky, with diffraction-limited spatial resolution.

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