The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the University of Notre Dame today signed an agreement for the loan of a detector developed for the Roman Space Telescope program to the iLocater program. The detector, an H4RG-10, will form a critical part of the iLocater spectrograph, and will enable critical precision exoplanet studies using iLocater. NASA has invested significantly in the development of these detectors, improving key metrics of detector performance.
The detector loan is covered by a Nonreimbursable Space Act Agreement (PAM ID# 38232).