ISAAC
Home Up HITS ISAAC LORAAS

 

 

ISAAC

Ionospheric Spectroscopy and Atmospheric Chemistry sensor

Photo of ISAAC during calibration. ISAAC optical layout. ISAAC grating drive cam for bandpass selection.  

Design Features

Summary
f/5 1/8-m Ebert design spectrograph with 1/8 m telescope
MUV (180-320 nm) coverage
Selectable 40 nm passband
0.4 nm spectral resolution
Passband complements the EUV/FUV coverage of HITS and LORAAS
Telescope
Baffled tube
Spherical mirror, 12.5 cm focal length used off-axis
25 mm X 25 mm blank
MgF2/Al reflective coating
Collimating and focusing mirror
Spherical mirror, 12.5 cm focal length
MgF2/Al reflective coating   
Grating
3600 lines/mm ruled grating
planar 25 mm X 25 mm
MgF2/Al reflective coating
Detector
ITT F4145 proximity focused channel intensifier
Quartz window
CsTe photocathode
Dual microchannel plates in chevron configuration
P20 phosphor
Fiber optic output window
Hammamatsu S3904 MOS linear image sensor
1024-diode 1-D array detector
20 um X 2.5mm pixels with 25 um pixel spacing
Field-of-View
0.034 vertical resolution (1.5 km)
1.1 degree horizontal field-of-view (55 km)
Co-aligned with HITS and LORAAS
Limb scanned by gimballing the main platform

ISAAC dayglow spectram Passband 2

Scientific Features

Provides D- and E-region electron densities
Measures dayside neutral densities for O, N, N2, O2, NO
Studies NO chemistry