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2023PASP..135d8003W - Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac., 135, part no 4, 8003 (2023/April-0)

The Mid-infrared Instrument for JWST and Its In-flight Performance.

WRIGHT G.S., RIEKE G.H., GLASSE A., RESSLER M., GARCIA MARIN M., AGUILAR J., ALBERTS S., ALVAREZ-MARQUEZ J., ARGYRIOU I., BANKS K., BAUDOZ P., BOCCALETTI A., BOUCHET P., BOUWMAN J., BRANDL B.R., BREDA D., BRIGHT S., CALE S., COLINA L., COSSOU C., COULAIS A., CRACRAFT M., DE MEESTER W., DICKEN D., ENGESSER M., ETXALUZE M., FOX O.D., FRIEDMAN S., FU H., GASMAN D., GASPAR A., GASTAUD R., GEERS V., GLAUSER A.M., GORDON K.D., GREENE T., GREVE T.R., GRUNDY T., GUDEL M., GUILLARD P., HADERLEIN P., HASHIMOTO R., HENNING T., HINES D., HOLLER B., DETRE O.H., JAHROMI A., JAMES B., JONES O.C., JUSTTANONT K., KAVANAGH P., KENDREW S., KLAASSEN P., KRAUSE O., LABIANO A., LAGAGE P.-O., LAMBROS S., LARSON K., LAW D., LEE D., LIBRALATO M., LORENZO ALVAREZ J., MEIXNER M., MORRISON J., MUELLER M., MURRAY K., MYCROFT M., MYERS R., NAYAK O., NAYLOR B., NICKSON B., NORIEGA-CRESPO A., OSTLIN G., O'SULLIVAN B., OTTENS R., PATAPIS P., PENANEN K., PIETRASZKIEWICZ M., RAY T., REGAN M., ROTELIUK A., ROYER P., SAMARA-RATNA P., SAMUELSON B., SARGENT B.A., SCHEITHAUER S., SCHNEIDER A., SCHREIBER J., SHAUGHNESSY B., SHEEHAN E., SHIVAEI I., SLOAN G.C., TAMAS L., TEAGUE K., TEMIM T., TIKKANEN T., TUSTAIN S., VAN DISHOECK E.F., VANDENBUSSCHE B., WEILERT M., WHITEHOUSE P. and WOLFF S.

Abstract (from CDS):

The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) extends the reach of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to 28.5 μm. It provides subarcsecond-resolution imaging, high sensitivity coronagraphy, and spectroscopy at resolutions of λ/Δλ ∼ 100-3500, with the high-resolution mode employing an integral field unit to provide spatial data cubes. The resulting broad suite of capabilities will enable huge advances in studies over this wavelength range. This overview describes the history of acquiring this capability for JWST. It discusses the basic attributes of the instrument optics, the detector arrays, and the cryocooler that keeps everything at approximately 7 K. It gives a short description of the data pipeline and of the instrument performance demonstrated during JWST commissioning. The bottom line is that the telescope and MIRI are both operating to the standards set by pre-launch predictions, and all of the MIRI capabilities are operating at, or even a bit better than, the level that had been expected. The paper is also designed to act as a roadmap to more detailed papers on different aspects of MIRI.

Abstract Copyright: © 2023. The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd on behalf of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP). All rights reserved

Journal keyword(s): Space vehicle instruments - Astronomical instrumentation

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