Welcome to DARTS/IRTS
About IRTS
IRTS (Infrared Telescope in Space) is one of the experiments on-board the Space Flyer Unit (SFU), which was launched by the H-II rocket on March 18, 1995, and retrieved by the NASA Space Shuttle STS-72 on January 13, 1996.
Guideline for publication related to the IRTS data
For conditions of using data archived in DARTS, please find this page.
When publishing science results based on IRTS data in a journal or proceedings, you are requested to include the following sentence in the acknowledgement.
"This research is based on observations with IRTS, a joint project by ISAS and NASA"
And please refer to at least one of the following papers:
- IRTS mission: Murakami et al. (1996 PASJ)
- NIRS: Noda et al. (1996 SPIE)
- MIRS: Roellig et al. (1996 SPIE)
- FILM: Shibai et al. (1996 SPIE)
- FIRP: Hirao et al. (1996 SPIE)