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Figure 1: Artist view of the PRONAOS/SPM gondola in flight. The front side of the telescope is not represented in order to show the primary mirror structure and the focal plane instrument. |
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Figure 2: Design of the warm optics of the SPM instrument located behind the primary mirror M 1. |
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Figure 3: Measurements of the PRONAOS/SPM spectral response. The vertical lines correspond to the effective wavelength positions for each band (Sect. 3.1.2). |
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Figure 4: PRONAOS/SPM dual beam section measured on Saturn. |
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Figure 5: Optics design of the SPM instrument and the ICS as seen from the back of the telescope primary mirror (M 1). |
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Figure 6: PRONAOS/SPM response variation on ICS during the 1996 flight. Response is expressed as SPM internal units vs. brightness temperature for extended sources in mK. |
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Figure 7: PRONAOS/SPM response variation with background temperature. Lines are polynomial fits to data points sets. |
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Figure 8:
Spectrum of M 82 measured by PRONAOS
and DIRBE . The data in Table 10 have been
iteratively color corrected in order to take into account of the actual
spectral shape:
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Figure 9:
This figure
illustrates the method used when comparing the PRONAOS and DIRBE
brightnesses for extended sources on the M 42 data. The grey scale
shows the DIRBE
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Figure 10:
PRONAOS DIRBE intercalibration results on extended
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Figure 11:
ISOPHOT (grey scale) and PRONAOS
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Figure 12:
Correlation diagrams between the ISOPHOT
and PRONAOS modulated data at
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Figure A.1: Spectrum of Saturn's disk (continuous line) as quoted in Bézard et al. (1986), and the transmission shape of the four PRONAOS/SPM spectral channels (dashed lines). |
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Figure A.2:
Brightness temperature spectrum of
the Saturn rings. The black diamonds are the data collected by
Esposito et al. (1984), the grey squares are the Roellig et al.
(1988), Grossman et al. (1990), Dowling et al. (1987) and de Pater & Dickel (1991) data and
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