Cassini composite infrared spectrometer: correcting an offset error and refining the pointing parameters for the midinfrared detectors.

Applied optics 62:22 (2023) 5882-5888

Authors:

John C Pearl, Conor A Nixon, Donald E Jennings, Shahid Aslam, Simon Calcutt, Monte S Kaelberer, Nicolas Gorius, Richard K Achterberg, Paul N Romani, Gordon L Bjoraker, Michael Flasar

Abstract:

Based on preflight laboratory testing, an unexpectedly large positional offset between the two midinfrared (mid-IR) detector arrays in the Cassini composite infrared spectrometer (CIRS) instrument has been noted in the literature. A much smaller offset was measured in-flight. We investigate this discrepancy by estimating several spatial relationships among the detectors and comparing these results with three independent data sets. This enables us to infer the probable cause of this offset and to derive a new reduced value. We comment on the effect that this change could have on previously published results involving CIRS data. We also present a graphical display of the arrays projected on the sky as CIRS would see it.

Cassini composite infrared spectrometer: correcting an offset error and refining the pointing parameters for the midinfrared detectors: publisher's note.

Applied optics 62:23 (2023) 6298

Authors:

John C Pearl, Conor A Nixon, Donald E Jennings, Shahid Aslam, Simon Calcutt, Monte S Kaelberer, Nicolas Gorius, Richard K Achterberg, Paul N Romani, Gordon L Bjoraker, Michael Flasar

Abstract:

This publisher's note serves to correct Appl. Opt.62, 5882 (2023).APOPAI0003-693510.1364/AO.491970.

Bidirectional reflectance distribution function measurements of the Winchcombe meteorite using the Visible Oxford Space Environment Goniometer

Meteoritics and Planetary Science Wiley (2023)

Authors:

RJ Curtis, HC Bates, TJ Warren, KA Shirley, EC Brown, AJ King, NE Bowles

The bulk mineralogy, elemental composition, and water content of the Winchcombe CM chondrite fall

Meteoritics and Planetary Science Wiley (2023)

Authors:

HC Bates, AJ King, KS Shirley, E Bonsall, C Schröder, F Wombacher, T Fockenberg, RJ Curtis, NE Bowles

Bolometric Hemispherical Albedo Map of Pluto from New Horizons Observations

The Planetary Science Journal American Astronomical Society 4:7 (2023) 132

Authors:

Jason D Hofgartner, Bonnie J Buratti, Ross A Beyer, Kimberly Ennico, Will M Grundy, Carly JA Howett, Perianne E Johnson, Tod R Lauer, Catherine B Olkin, John R Spencer, S Alan Stern, Harold A Weaver, Leslie A Young