DESCRIPTION |
MIRLIN is a 128 x 128 pixel, 7 - 25 micron infrared astronomical camera built at JPL
and used on the Palomar 5 meter (200 inch) telescope, the NASA Infrared Telescope
Facility 3 meter telescope, and the Keck II 10 meter telescope. MIRLIN's camera is
based on Boeing's HF-16 128 x 128 Si:As BIB array. At the IRTF, MIRLIN has a plate
scale of 0.475 arcsec/pixel and a field of view of 61 arcsec. At the IRTF its
sensitivity for a 5-sigma detection in 60 seconds integration is 90 mJy at 10
microns. The filter set includes the M, N, Q, Q-short, and Q-long filters, the OCLI
6-filter 10 micron silicate set, a 7-filter narrow-band 20 micron set, and a 7-14
micron, 2 percent resolution CVF.
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