InfraRed detectors In Space (IRIS 2026) Workshop

Session

Space Missions Overview

10 Mar 2026, 09:30

Room 216 (mezzanine floor) (CNR Area Territoriale della Ricerca Bologna)

Description

Review of operating and upcoming space observatories equipped with state-of-the-art infrared sensors.

18. Overview of three decades of infrared detectors in space - M. Robberto

10/03/2026, 09:30

19. Euclid

Ralf Kohley

10/03/2026, 09:55

20. Beyond Expectations: JWST Status and Outlook

Thomas Brown

10/03/2026, 10:15

The James Webb Space Telescope is an incredibly complex and powerful observatory, the development of which required decades of effort from thousands of technicians, engineers, and scientists. Despite its complexity, Webb was deployed flawlessly and is performing far better than the design requirements. That performance, combined with Webb’s versatile suite of instrument modes, enables...

22. SPHEREx

Phil Korngut

10/03/2026, 10:35

21. The MAJIS VIS-IR imaging spectrometer on ESA/JUICE mission

François Poulet

10/03/2026, 11:25

JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) is the first large-class mission of ESA’s Cosmic Vision 2015–2025 program. It was launched in April 2023 and will arrive at Jupiter in July 2031. After a 3.4-year tour of the Jupiter system, JUICE will enter into a dedicated orbital phase around Ganymede for about one year. The primary goals of the mission are to investigate Jupiter’s complex magnetosphere...

23. Overview of the Ariel mission and payload

Paul Eccleston

10/03/2026, 11:45

This talk will present an overview and background of the Ariel mission and payload. Ariel is an ESA M-class science mission designed to conduct transit and eclipse spectroscopy of approximately 1000 transiting exoplanets in order to study the composition of their atmospheres. The payload consists of a 1m-class telescope which feeds two instruments - a combined photometer, guidance and low...

24. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Timothy Brandt

10/03/2026, 12:05

I will give an overview of the Roman Space Telescope, with a focus on the 18 Teledyne H4RG-10 detectors of its flagship Wide Field Instrument. The science requirements for Roman-WFI are unprecedented in the level of calibration that they demand, from <0.1% knowledge of the observed point-spread function, to <0.4% nonlinearity over four orders of magnitude, to ultra-low persistence. I will...

25. The ESA Arrakihs F2 Mission

Marco Sirianni

10/03/2026, 12:25

Arrakihs is an ESA Fast class mission designed to probe the nature of dark matter and the assembly of Milky Way–type galaxies through ultra-deep imaging of extremely faint stellar halos. By mapping diffuse halos, tidal streams, and satellite populations around nearby galaxies, Arrakihs will provide stringent observational tests of the ΛCDM paradigm in a regime where current surveys are...

26. NEO Surveyor

15 min