Anthony J. Smith

TL;DR: The Spectral and Photometric Imaging REceiver (SPIRE) is the Herschel Space Observatory's sub-millimetre camera and spectrometer as discussed by the authors, which is used for image and spectroscopic data acquisition.

TL;DR: Despite the overall downturn in cosmic star formation towards the highest redshifts, it seems that environments mature enough to form the most massive, intense starbursts existed at least as early as 880 million years after the Big Bang.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors exploit the deep and extended far-IR data sets (at 70, 100 and 160 μm) of the GPS PACS Evolutionary Probe (PEP) Survey, in combination with the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey data at 250, 350 and 500 μm, to derive the evolution of the rest-frame 35-, 60-, 90- and total infrared luminosity functions (LFs) up to z ∼ 4.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the photometric, spectroscopic and spatial accuracy of the SPIRE system using a combination of the emission from the Herschel telescope itself and the modelled continuum emission from solar system objects and other astronomical targets.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the SPIRE instrument on the Herschel Multi-tiered Extra-Galactic Survey (HerMES) to directly resolve ~15% of the infrared extra-galactic background at the wavelength near where it peaks.