Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-b95js Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-14T05:23:08.965Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Legacy for Herschel from ISO and Spitzer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2008

L. Pagani ,
M. Gerin  and
M. Harwit
M. Harwit*
Affiliation:
511 H Street, SW, Washington, DC 20024-2725, USA; also Cornell University
Get access

Abstract

An important feature of ISO was its Central Programme. It covered a broad range of topics, ranging from planetary to stellar and interstellar investigations and the exploration of extragalactic sources and the Cosmos. Assurance that the data, gathered over a period of 28 months had been reliably obtained was provided by a deliberate policy to reserve one day in every seven for calibration and cross-calibration purposes. This made sure that data gathered at the beginning of the mission could be linked to data gathered at the end, and that information obtained with one instrument could be reliably backed up by observations obtained by one of the others. These precautions led to several major accomplishments recapitulated here. Spitzer built on some of ISO 's approaches and extended them further. The proposal tool Spot pioneered by Spitzer is facilitating Herschel proposal submission through its offspring HSpot. Spitzer's emphasis on Legacy Projects, large programs to create homogeneously gathered and archived data sets, has influenced the design of Herschel's Key Programmes. Spitzer's deliberate effort to establish collaborations with large ground based observatories and space-observatories covering complementing spectral ranges, led to further coordination in the pursuit of scientific goals. These efforts resulted in remarkable new findings.

Type
Research Article
Information
European Astronomical Society Publications Series , Volume 34: Astronomy in the Submillimeter and Far Infrared Domains with the Herschel Space Observatory , 2009 , pp. 65 - 74
Copyright
© EAS, EDP Sciences, 2009

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Appleton, P.N., et al., 2006, ApJ, 639, L51 CrossRef
Baumgartner, W.H., Loewenstein, M., Horner, D.J., & Mushotzky, R.F., 2005, ApJ, 620, 680 CrossRef
Coulais, A., & Abergel, A., 2000, A&AS, 141, 533
Dole, H., et al., 2001, A&A, 372, 364
Dole, H., et al., 2005, A&A, 451, 417
Dow-Hygelund, C.C., et al., 2005, ApJ, 630, L137 CrossRef
Elbaz, D., et al., 1999, A&A, 351, L37
Fouks, B.I., & Schubert, J., 1995, Proc. SPIE, 2475, 487 CrossRef
Galliano, F., 2006, “Studying Galaxy Evolution with Spitzer and Herschel”, Poster at Conference held in Crete, June 2006
Kessler, M.F., et al., 1996, A&A, 315, L27
Lerate, M.R., et al., 2006, MNRAS, 370, 597 CrossRef
Miville-Deschênes, M.-A., Boulanger, F. Abergel, A., & Bernard, J.-P., 2000, A&AS, 146, 519
Puget, J.-L., et al., 1995, A&A, 308, L5
Metcalfe, L., et al., 2003, A&A, 407, 791
Rowan-Robinson, M., “Studying Galaxy Evolution with Spitzer and Herschel”, Conference held in Crete, June 2006
Schneider, R., Ferrara, A., & Salvaterra, R., 2004, MNRAS, 351, 1379 CrossRef
Valentijn, E.A., & Thi, W.F., 2000, Exper. Astron., 10, 215, 2000 CrossRef
Werner, M.W., et al., 2004, ApJS, 154, 1 CrossRef