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HAWC +, the Far-Infrared Camera and Polarimeter for SOFIA

Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation, Volume 7, No. 4, Article 1840008, Year 2018

High-resolution Airborne Wide-band Camera (HAWC+) is the facility far-infrared imager and polarimeter for SOFIA, NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. It is designed to cover the portion of the infrared spectrum that is completely inaccessible to ground-based observatories and which is essential for studies of astronomical sources with temperatures between tens and hundreds of degrees Kelvin. Its ability to make polarimetric measurements of aligned dust grains provides a unique new capability for studying interstellar magnetic fields. HAWC+ began commissioning flights in April 2016 and was accepted as a facility instrument in early 2018. In this paper, we describe the instrument, its operational procedures, and its performance on the observatory.

Harper, Doyal A.
1. United States, Chicago The University of Chicago
2. United States, Williams Bay Yerkes Observatory
Runyan, Marcus C.
1. United States, Pasadena Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Dowell, Charles Darren
1. United States, Pasadena Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Wirth, C. Jesse
1. United States, Williams Bay Yerkes Observatory
Amato, Michael
1. United States, Greenbelt Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
Ames, Troy
1. United States, Greenbelt Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
Amiri, Mandana
1. Canada, Vancouver The University of British Columbia
Banks, Stuart
1. United States, Greenbelt Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
Bartels, Arlin
1. United States, Greenbelt Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
Benford, Dominic J.
1. United States, Greenbelt Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
Berthoud, Marc G.
1. United States, Williams Bay Yerkes Observatory
Buchanan, Ernest
1. United States, Bethesda Adnet Systems, Inc.
Casey, Sean
1. United States, Palo Alto Silicon Valley Space Center
Chapman, Nicholas L.
1. United States, Evanston Northwestern University
Chuss, David T.
1. United States, Villanova Villanova University
Cook, Brant
1. United States, Pasadena Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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1. United States, Greenbelt Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
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1. United States, Moffett Field Nasa Ames Research Center
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1. Namibia, Windhoek University of Namibia
Fixsen, Dale
1. United States, Greenbelt Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
Gatley, Ian
1. United States, Newark New Jersey Institute of Technology
Guerra, Jordan A.
1. United States, Villanova Villanova University
Halpern, Mark
1. Canada, Vancouver The University of British Columbia
Hamilton, Ryan T.
1. United States, Flagstaff Lowell Observatory
Hamlin, Louise A.
1. United States, Pasadena Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Hansen, Christopher J.
1. United States, Evanston Northwestern University
Heimsath, Stephen
1. United States, Chicago The University of Chicago
Hermida, Alfonso
1. United States, Miramar Naglreiter
Hilton, Gene C.
1. United States, Gaithersburg National Institute of Standards and Technology
Hirsch, Robert
1. United States, Williams Bay Yerkes Observatory
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1. United States, Batavia Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Hostetter, Carl F.
1. United States, Greenbelt Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
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1. United States, Palo Alto Stanford University
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1. United States, Greenbelt Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
Jhabvala, Murzban
1. United States, Greenbelt Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
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1. United States, Rochester Rochester Institute of Technology
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1. United States, Cambridge Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
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1. United States, Pasadena Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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1. United States, Williams Bay Yerkes Observatory
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1. United States, Urbana University of Illinois Urbana-champaign
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1. United States, Moffett Field Nasa Ames Research Center
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1. United States, Villanova Villanova University
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1. United States, Greenbelt Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
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1. United States, Greenbelt Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
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1. United States, Evanston Northwestern University
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1. United States, Williams Bay Yerkes Observatory
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1. United States, Rochester Rochester Institute of Technology
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1. United States, Columbia Universities Space Research Association
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1. United States, Santa Cruz University of California, Santa Cruz
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1. United States, Evanston Northwestern University
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1. United States, Greenbelt Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
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1. United States, Greenbelt Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
2. United States, Greenbelt Global Science and Technology, Inc.
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1. United States, Greenbelt Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
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1. United States, Villanova Villanova University
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1. United States, Greenbelt Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
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1. United States, Greenbelt Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
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1. United States, Williams Bay Yerkes Observatory
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1. United States, Greenbelt Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
2. United States, Baltimore Johns Hopkins University
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1. United States, Pasadena Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Towey, Shannon
1. United States, Pasadena Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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1. United States, Greenbelt Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
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1. United States, Chicago The University of Chicago
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1. United States, Chicago The University of Chicago
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1. United States, Chicago The University of Chicago
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1. United States, Greenbelt Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center

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