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Published March 2008 | Published
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Absolute calibration and characterization of the multiband imaging photometer for Spitzer. IV. The spectral energy distribution mode

Abstract

The spectral energy distribution (SED) mode of the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS) aboard the Spitzer Space Telescope provides low-spectral resolution (R ≈ 15–25) spectroscopy in the far-infrared using the MIPS 70 μm detector. A reflective grating provides a dispersion of 1.7 μm per pixel, and an effective wavelength coverage of 52.8–98.7 μm over detector rows 1–27. The final 5 detector rows are contaminated by second-order diffracted light and are left uncalibrated. The flux calibration is based on observations of MIPS calibration stars with 70 μm flux densities of 0.5–15 Jy. The point-source flux calibration accuracy is estimated to be 10% or better down to about 0.5 Jy at the blue end of the spectrum and to ~2 Jy near the red end. With additional uncertainties from the illumination and aperture corrections included, the surface brightness calibration of extended sources is accurate to ~15%. Repeatability of better than 5% is found for the SED mode through multiple measurements of several calibration stars.

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© 2008 The Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Received 2007 November 14; accepted 2008 January 22; published 2008 March 13. This work is based on observations made with the Spitzer Space Telescope, which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology under NASA contract 1407. This work was also supported by the MIPS IT contract 1255094 to the University of Arizona. P. S. S. acknowledges support from JPL contract 1256424 to the University of Arizona.

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