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AKARI is the Japanese infrared
space satellite designed for an all-sky survey at 10-180 micron, and
deep pointed surveys of selected areas at 2-180 micron.
AKARI was launched successfully on February 22nd 2006 (JST) from
JAXA's Uchinoura Space Centre, Japan and we started various
observations after the successful aperture lid-opening on 2006 April
13th (JST).
The deep pointed surveys with AKARI will significantly advance our
understanding of galaxy evolution, the structure formation of the
universe, the nature of buried AGNs, and the cosmic infrared
background.
For these purposes, we are performing the 2-26 micron deep imaging
and slitless spectroscopy survey at the North Ecliptic Pole and
50-180micron deep surveys at the low-cirrus noise regions near the
South Ecliptic Pole with AKARI.
The AKARI deep surveys are particularly unique in respects of
continuous wavelength coverage in the entire infrared range and the
capability of unbiased spectroscpic survey in the near- and
mid-infrared range.
Here we will introduce the AKARI satellite and present initial
results from AKARI extragalactic observations. |
