MIRLIN - The JPL Deep-Well Mid-Infrared Array Camera

Last substantive update: Mar. 27, 2002 (Sensitivity updates.)

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Welcome to the MIRLIN Web Page. MIRLIN is a 128 x 128 pixel, 7 - 25 µm infrared astronomical camera built at JPL by a team led by Dr. Michael Ressler and used on the Palomar 5 meter (200 inch) telescope, the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility 3 meter telescope, and the Keck II 10 meter telescope. At right: images of Jupiter from Glenn Orton's March, 2001 IRTF run. This was the first run with MIRLIN operating as a full IRTF facility instrument. The dot to the lower left of Jupiter is Ganymede.

Jupiter, 7.85 µm Jupiter, 17.2 µm

Proposals to use MIRLIN at Palomar are welcome from anyone within the Palomar community (Caltech, Cornell, JPL). Please check with Mike Ressler to ensure availability and support.

MIRLIN spent a considerable amount of time as a "part-time" facility instrument at the IRTF; it is no longer available to the IRTF community; please explore the use of MIRSI instead. MIRLIN also enjoyed a productive 3 year stint on the Keck II telescope, as well, but Keck is no longer supporting visitor instruments or even mid-infrared instruments, having retired their own LWS.

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