Mehrdad Moshir's Home Page

These days I am devoting most of my time to the design and development of the SIRTF Science Center (SSC) Downlink Segment. Additionally, I am a co-investigator on the MSX Celestial Backgrounds Team, with main interest in the extragalactic data from the mission.

As for my SIRTF work, in a nutshell, the function of the SSC D/L Segment is to receive raw instrument data, house keeping, pointing and S/C engineering data from the Flight Operations System (FOS), located at JPL, and convert them into calibrated FITS data files for use by the community.

MSX Links

MSX Celestial Backgrounds Team Home Page.

MSX Home Page.

Very exciting data are coming out of the MSX mission; data from the Galactic Plane and IRAS Gaps surveys have been reduced and are now available to the community (an explanatory guide is also avaialable), see MSX Archive Access. For a glimpse of things still to come, here is an image of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) as seen by MSX at ~ 8.3mm (from band A which covers 6.8mm -10.8mm).

I have been working with K. Marsh (also at IPAC) on reducing these data.

For more information on the MSX galaxy sample see the following paper presented at the Astrophysics with Infrared Surveys Conference, held in Pasadena, CA, 22-25 June, 1998.
MSX Survey of Extended Galaxies (ASP Conference Series, Volume 177, 1999)

The MSX bands you hear about are A, C, D, E; the RSRs for these bands are shown below. A is ~ 8.3mm, C ~ 12.1mm, D ~ 14.7mm and E ~ 21.4mm. The sharp filters at ~ 4.3mm are called B1 & B2 (not very senstitive bands).

More on MSX

MSX related pictures and documents.

If you have comments or suggestions, email me at mmm@ipac.caltech.edu

Updated October 29, 1999