Calibration of MAJIS (Moons And Jupiter Imaging Spectrometer). III. Spectral calibration.


Journal

The Review of scientific instruments
ISSN: 1089-7623
Titre abrégé: Rev Sci Instrum
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0405571

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
01 Mar 2024
Historique:
received: 25 11 2023
accepted: 12 02 2024
medline: 7 3 2024
pubmed: 7 3 2024
entrez: 7 3 2024
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

The Moons And Jupiter Imaging Spectrometer (MAJIS) is the visible and near-infrared imaging spectrometer onboard the European Space Agency (ESA)'s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission. Before its integration into the spacecraft, the instrument undergoes an extensive ground calibration to establish its baseline performances. This process prepares the imaging spectrometer for flight operations by characterizing the behavior of the instrument under various operative conditions and uncovering instrumental distortions that may depend on instrumental commands. Two steps of the on-ground calibration campaigns were held at the instrument level to produce the data. Additional in-flight measurements have recently been obtained after launch during the Near-Earth Commissioning Phase. In this article, we present the analyses of these datasets, focusing on the characterization of the spectral performances. First, we describe and analyze the spectral calibration datasets obtained using both monochromatic sources and polychromatic sources coupled with solid and gas samples. Then, we derive the spectral sampling and the spectral response function over the entire field of view. These spectral characteristics are quantified for various operational parameters of MAJIS, such as temperature and spectral binning. The derived on-ground performances are then compared with in-flight measurements obtained after launch and presented in the framework of the MAJIS performance requirements.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38451143
pii: 3268766
doi: 10.1063/5.0188944
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Informations de copyright

© 2024 Author(s). Published under an exclusive license by AIP Publishing.

Auteurs

Paolo Haffoud (P)

Institut d'Astrophysique Spatial, CNRS-Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay 91400, France.

François Poulet (F)

Institut d'Astrophysique Spatial, CNRS-Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay 91400, France.

Mathieu Vincendon (M)

Institut d'Astrophysique Spatial, CNRS-Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay 91400, France.

Gianrico Filacchione (G)

Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Rome 00133, Italy.

Alessandra Barbis (A)

Leonardo Company, via delle Officine Galileo, 1, Campi Bisenzio 50013, Italy.

Pierre Guiot (P)

Institut d'Astrophysique Spatial, CNRS-Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay 91400, France.

Benoit Lecomte (B)

Institut d'Astrophysique Spatial, CNRS-Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay 91400, France.

Yves Langevin (Y)

Institut d'Astrophysique Spatial, CNRS-Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay 91400, France.

Giuseppe Piccioni (G)

Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Rome 00133, Italy.

Cydalise Dumesnil (C)

Institut d'Astrophysique Spatial, CNRS-Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay 91400, France.

Sébastien Rodriguez (S)

Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, CNRS-Université Paris-Cité, Paris 75005, France.

John Carter (J)

Institut d'Astrophysique Spatial, CNRS-Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay 91400, France.

Stefani Stefania (S)

Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Rome 00133, Italy.

Leonardo Tommasi (L)

Leonardo Company, via delle Officine Galileo, 1, Campi Bisenzio 50013, Italy.

Federico Tosi (F)

Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Rome 00133, Italy.

Cédric Pilorget (C)

Institut d'Astrophysique Spatial, CNRS-Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay 91400, France.
Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France.

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