HAWC+, the Far-Infrared Camera and Polarimeter for SOFIA
HAWC+, the Far-Infrared Camera and Polarimeter for SOFIA
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HAWC ，SOFIA 远红外相机和旋光仪
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
Edward J. Wollack
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D. Harper;M. Runyan;C. Dowell;C. Wirth;M. Amato;T. Ames;M. Amiri;S. Banks;A. Bartels;D. Benford;M. Berthoud;E. Buchanan;S. Casey;N. Chapman;D. Chuss;B. Cook;R. Derro;J. Dotson;R. Evans;D. Fixsen;I. Gatley;J. A. Guerra;M. Halpern;R. Hamilton;L. Hamlin;C. Hansen;S. Heimsath;Alfonso Hermida;G. Hilton;R. Hirsch;M. Hollister;Carl F. Hostetter;K. Irwin;C. Jhabvala;M. Jhabvala;J. Kastner;A. Kovács;Sean Lin;R. Loewenstein;L. Looney;E. Lopez;S. Maher;J. Michail;T. Miller;S. Moseley;G. Novak;R. Pernic;T. Rennick;H. Rhody;E. Sandberg;Dale Sandford;F. Santos;R. Shafer;E. Sharp;P. Shirron;J. Siah;R. Silverberg;L. Sparr;Robert Spotz;J. Staguhn;Armen S. Toorian;Shannon Towey;J. Tuttle;J. Vaillancourt;G. Voellmer;C. Volpert;Shu I. Wang;Edward J. Wollack
高分辨率机载宽带相机（HAWC）是索菲亚（美国宇航局平流层红外天文台）的远红外成像仪和偏振仪。它的目的是覆盖地面观测站完全无法到达的红外光谱部分，这对于研究温度在几十至几百开氏度之间的天文源至关重要。它对排列整齐的尘埃颗粒进行偏振测量的能力为研究星际磁场提供了一种独特的新能力。HAWC[Formula：see text]于2016年4月开始调试飞行，并于2018年初被接受为设施仪器。在本文中，我们描述的仪器，其操作程序，其性能的天文台。
High-resolution Airborne Wide-band Camera (HAWC[Formula: see text]) is the facility far-infrared imager and polarimeter for SOFIA, NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. It is designed to cover the portion of the infrared spectrum that is completely inaccessible to ground-based observatories and which is essential for studies of astronomical sources with temperatures between tens and hundreds of degrees Kelvin. Its ability to make polarimetric measurements of aligned dust grains provides a unique new capability for studying interstellar magnetic fields. HAWC[Formula: see text] began commissioning flights in April 2016 and was accepted as a facility instrument in early 2018. In this paper, we describe the instrument, its operational procedures, and its performance on the observatory.