2006•Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIERequires access
Detectors for the James Webb Space Telescope near infrared spectrograph (NIRSpec)
Bernard J. Rauscher, Torsten Böker, Craig A. Cabelli, Guido De Marchi, Pierre Ferruit, James D. Garnett, Robert Hill, Markus Loose, Michael W. Regan, Augustyn Waczynski, Yiting Wen, Selmer S. Wong, M. Zandian, David Alexander, Clifford Brambora, Rebecca J. Derro, Carol Anne Dunn, Timothy A. Ellis, Matthew Garrison, Bryan Howe, P. Jakobsen, Thomas E. Johnson, Miriam Jurado, Ginn Lee, Sridhar Manthripragada, James M. Marsh, Cheryl J. Marshall, Robert J. Martineau, Brent Mott, John Nieznanski, Wayne D. Roher, Kamdin B. Shakoorzadeh, Miles T. Smith, Paolo Strada, P. M. Wallis, Wei Xia‐Serafino, James York
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Abstract
The Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) will be the James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST's) primary near-infrared spectrograph. NIRSpec is a multi-object spectrograph with fixed-slit and integral field modes. EADS/Astrium is building NIRSpec for the European Space Agency (ESA), with NASA is providing the detector subsystem and programmable multi-aperture mask. In this paper, we summarize recent progress on the detector subsystem including tests demonstrating that JWST's Rockwell HAWAII-2RG sensor chip assemblies have achieved Technology Readiness Level 6 (TRL-6). Achieving TRL-6 is an important milestone because TRL-6 is required for flight.