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The Multiband Imaging Photometer for SIRTF (MIPS) will provide background-limited sensitivity from 3μm to 700μm. The submillimeter channels will reach NEP≤5×10-17 W/√Hz using bolometers cooled to 100mK by an adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator. These bands will have an angular resolution of ~2’ and will achieve a sensitivity of 4–9mJy. These limits are 5 × better than for existing telescopes observing point sources and ~100 × better for observing diffuse sources.
One of the three instruments on the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) is the Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS), (Rieke et al. 1986). Here we will focus on two cosmological observations planned for the 200μm-700μm portion of the MIPS.
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Timbie, P.T., Bernstein, G.M., Richards, P.L., Gautier, T.N., Rieke, G.H., Werner, M.W. (1990). Submillimeter Cosmology with the Multiband Imaging Photometer for SIRTF. In: Watt, G.D., Webster, A.S. (eds) Submillimetre Astronomy. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 158. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-6850-0_18
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