@article{03ab05382bf64b519b064c14b8eccc35,
title = "FIFI-LS: The Field-Imaging Far-Infrared Line Spectrometer on SOFIA",
abstract = "We describe the design of the Field-Imaging Far-Infrared Line Spectrometer (FIFI-LS), operated as a Facility-Class instrument on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). FIFI-LS is an imaging spectrometer for medium resolution spectroscopy. Since being commissioned in 2014, it has performed over 50 SOFIA commissioning and science flights. After operating as a principal investigator instrument in 2014 and early 2015, it was accepted as a Facility Science Instrument in 2015. In addition to the description of the design, we report on the in-flight performance and the concept of operation. We also provide an overview of the science opportunities with FIFI-LS and describe how FIFI-LS observations complement and complete observations with the PACS instrument on the Herschel observatory.",
keywords = "FIFI-LS, Integral field spectroscopy, SOFIA, far-Infrared, spectrometer",
author = "Christian Fischer and Simon Beckmann and Aaron Bryant and Sebastian Colditz and Fabio Fumi and Norbert Geis and Mourad Hamidouche and Thomas Henning and Rainer H{\"o}nle and Christof Iserlohe and Randolf Klein and Alfred Krabbe and Leslie Looney and Albrecht Poglitsch and Walfried Raab and Felix Rebell and DIrk Rosenthal and Maureen Savage and Mario Schweitzer and Christopher Trinh and William Vacca",
note = "SOFIA, the \textbackslash{}Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy{"} is a joint project of the DeutschesZen-trumf{\"u}rLuft-und Raumfahrte.V. (DLR; German Aerospace Center, grant: 50OK0901) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). It is funded on behalf of DLR by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology based on legislation by the German Parliament, the state of Baden-W{\"u}rttemberg and the Universitat Stuttgart. Scienti¯c operation for Germany is coordinated by the German SOFIA Institute (DSI) of the Universitat Stuttgart, in the USA by the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). SOFIA, the {"}Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy{"} is a joint project of the DeutschesZentrumf?rLuft- und Raumfahrte.V. (DLR; German Aerospace Center, grant: 50OK0901) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). It is funded on behalf of DLR by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology based on legislation by the German Parliament, the state of Baden-W?rttemberg and the Universit?t Stuttgart. Scientific operation for Germany is coordinated by the German SOFIA Institute (DSI) of the Universit?t Stuttgart, in the USA by the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). The team would like to thank the SOFIA observatory including NASA, USRA, DLR and DSI. The eight FIFI-LS flight series conducted up to the time of writing were successful only due to the excellent cooperation of all participants.",
year = "2018",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1142/S2251171718400032",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "7",
journal = "Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation",
issn = "2251-1717",
publisher = "World Scientific",
number = "4",
}