Commentary: JWST near-infrared detector degradation— finding the problem, fixing the problem, and moving forward

Commentary: JWST near-infrared detector degradation— finding the problem, fixing the problem, and moving forward

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. JWST will be an infrared-optimized telescope, with an approximately 6.5 m diameter primary mirror, that is located at the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point. Three of JWST’s four science instruments use Teledyne HgCdTe HA...

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Main Authors: Bernard J. Rauscher, Carl Stahle, Robert J. Hill, Matthew Greenhouse, James Beletic, Sachidananda Babu, Peter Blake, Keith Cleveland, Emmanuel Cofie, Bente Eegholm, C. W. Engelbracht, Donald N. B. Hall, Alan Hoffman, Basil Jeffers, Christine Jhabvala, Randy A. Kimble, Stanley Kohn, Robert Kopp, Don Lee, Henning Leidecker, Don Lindler, Robert E. McMurray Jr., Karl Misselt, D. Brent Mott, Raymond Ohl, Judith L. Pipher, Eric Piquette, Dan Polis, Jim Pontius, Marcia Rieke, Roger Smith, W. E. Tennant, Liqin Wang, Yiting Wen, Christopher N. A. Willmer, Majid Zandian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2012-06-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4733534

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