Fig. 17.
EMIRS Noise Equivalent Spectral Radiance (NESR) precision plots. These figures illustrate the variation in instrument performance over temperature for both 2 (left) and 4 (right) second modes respectively. The lowest instrument temperatures (0 °C) provide the lowest performance likely due to a mechanical tilt movement of the EMIRS interferometer fixed mirror of <10 arcseconds. Due to the operational heaters mounted on the interface plate, the EMIRS is predicted to never dip below ∼10-15 °C and will always remain within ∼10-45 °C