urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:naoj-hawaii.subaru_8m2.comics 1.3 1.25.0.0 Product_Context COMICS 2026-07-07 1.3 Removed duplicate Internal_Reference entries from Reference_List. 2025-12-24 1.2 Updated schema version. Adding missing "facility" references. Adding missing "telescope" references. 2025-01-02 1.1 Updated schema version. Adding missing "telescope" references. Update instrument type/subtype to use valid CTLI LDD. 2018-10-05 1.0 Initial creation of the context product. urn:nasa:pds:context:telescope:naoj-hawaii.subaru_8m2 instrument_to_telescope urn:nasa:pds:context:facility:observatory.naoj-hawaii instrument_to_facility Cooled Mid-Infrared Camera and Spectrometer Spectrometer Mid-Infrared COMICS is a mid-infrared camera and spectrometer with the ability to study cool interstellar dust, galaxies and active galactic nuclei, protoplanetary/planetary applications mounts on the Cassegrain focus of the Subaru 8.2 m telecope at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan on Mauna Kea, in Hawai'i. The instrument measures 2 m x 2 m x 2m and weighs 2 t. COMICS operates in the wavelength range 7.5 - 25 µm and is optimized for use in the N-band (7.5 - 13.5 µm) and Q- band (16 - 25 µm). The detectors used are 6 320-pixel by 240-pixel Si:As BIB detectors: 1 for imaging/slit viewing (40" slit length) and 5 arrays for spectroscopy, which provide high sensitivity, high spatial resolution, and observational efficiency. The field of view (FOV) is 42 arcsec x 32 arcsec for imaging, with a pixel size of 50 µm. Pixel scale is 0.13 arcsec (imaging) or 0.165 arcsec (spectroscopy), which translates into specrtral resolution of 250-10,000 in N-band and 2,500 in Q-band. Taken from instrument web page: https://www.subarutelescope.org/Introduction/instrument/COMICS.html