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 | PACS – A Photodetector Array Camera & Spectrometer for Herschel | |
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| PACS is one of three science instruments for ESA ’ s Herschel Space Observatory (HSO, formerly known as FIRST). It operates either as an imaging photometer or an integral field spectrometer over the spectral band from 57 to 210 µm. | ||
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| PACS is being designed and built by a consortium of institutes and university departments from across Europe under the leadership of Principal Investigator Albrecht Poglitsch located at Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany. Consortium members are: Austria: UVIE; Belgium: IMEC, KUL, CSL; France: CEA, OAMP; Germany: MPE, MPIA; Italy: IFSI, OAP/OAT, OAA/CAISMI, LENS, SISSA; Spain: IAC. | ||
| Get the PACS flyer (pdf) | ||
| For further information, send an email to: pacs@mpe.mpg.de If you have questions concerning this site contact: |  | |
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