RELEVANCE OF THE ISO CALIBRATION EXPERIENCE TO SIRTF

摘要

The Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) is a solar-orbiting, cryogenically-cooled 85-cm telescope with instruments providing imaging and spectroscopy from 3.6 μm to 160 μm. The cryogenic assembly is now in cold test in preparation for launch in 2002. SIRTF, like ISO, is an international observatory available for observations and archival research by all astronomers. This contribution is an attempt to distill the lessons learned from ISO that may apply to SIRTF. Since the SIRTF instruments are already complete, the focus is on the operational aspects of calibrator source selection, distribution of calibration information to the community, approaches to data reduction, and scheduling of calibration observations.