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AKARI

(ASTRO-F, IRIS, Infrared Imaging Surveyor)
(Japanese space infrared telescope)

AKARI (ASTRO-F, or earlier: IRIS for Infrared Imaging Surveyor) is a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) infrared observing satellite launched in 2006, to survey the entire sky. It was operational until 2011. Instruments:

(telescope,infrared,spacecraft,JAXA,past,all sky)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akari_(satellite)
http://www.ir.isas.jaxa.jp/AKARI/index.html
http://sci.esa.int/astrophysics/39279-akari-first-light/
https://global.jaxa.jp/projects/sas/astro_f/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007PASJ...59S.369M/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010A%26A...514A...1I/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015PASJ...67...50D/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018cwla.conf...21Y/abstract
PrefixExample  
AKARIAKARI-FIS-V1 J0001275+644107 

Referenced by pages:
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
mid infrared (MIR)
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