| 36 | 36 | || '''13.03.2015''' || '''Silvia Scheithauer''' || '''The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) [[BR]]aboard the James Webb Space Telescope'''[[BR]] [[BR]]The James Webb Space Telescope shall be launched in 2018. Aboard it will have four scientific instruments: two of them - MIRI and NIRSpec - being European deliveries with contributions from MPIA. MIRI has been built by a European science consortium involving more than a dozen scientific institutes - among them MPIA. [[BR]][[BR]]MIRI includes an imager and two spectrometers capable of doing imaging, coronography as well as spectroscopy. MPIA has been responsible for the filter wheel and the two dichroic-grating wheel mechanisms of the instrument. They have been designed, partly manufactured and tested at MPIA with great involvements of the design engineering department, the mechanical and the electronics workshops, respectively. The scientific performance has been tested extensively in 2011 in the UK by the MIRI test team.[[BR]] [[BR]]MIRI has been delivered to NASA in 2012, since then the test team is supporting the cryo-test campaigns at the Goddard Space Flight Center, is preparing the calibration pipeline and science cases. The talk will give an overview of MIRI's history at MPIA, its scientific performance and the future till the launch in 2018. [[BR]][[BR]]Talk: German[[BR]][https://svn.mpia.de/trac/gulli/att/raw-attachment/wiki/WikiStart/2015-03-13_MIRI.pdf Slides: English][[BR]]Questions: German, English || |
