scholarly journals Observations of Local ISM Emission With the Berkeley EUV/FUV Shuttle Telescope

1984 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 344-347
Author(s):  
Christopher Martin ◽  
Stuart Bowyer
Keyword(s):  
Interstellar Medium ◽  
Spectral Resolution ◽  
Space Shuttle ◽  
Extreme Ultraviolet ◽  
Diffuse Background ◽  
Far Ultraviolet

AbstractThe Berkeley Extreme Ultraviolet/Far Ultraviolet Shuttle Telescope (BEST) will be launched on the Space Shuttle in November, 1984, as part of the NASA UVX project. The Berkeley spectrometer will make observations of the cosmic diffuse background in the 600-1900 Å band, with a spectral resolution of 10 Å. The sensitivity and spectral resolution of the instrument make it ideal for the study of components of the interstellar medium in the 104 - 106K range.

scholarly journals An Instrument to Study the Diffuse EUV Astronomical Background

1996 ◽  
Vol 152 ◽  
pp. 611-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Bowyer ◽  
J. Edelstein ◽  
M. Lampton ◽  
L. Morales ◽  
J. Perez Mercader ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Interstellar Medium ◽  
Extreme Ultraviolet ◽  
Unique Line ◽  
Upper Limits ◽  
Diffuse Background ◽  
Source Mechanisms ◽  
New Type

The extreme ultraviolet (EUV) diffuse background is the most poorly known of any of the diffuse astronomical backgrounds. Only upper limits to this flux exist, obtained with spectrometers with very crude (from ≈ 15 to 30 Å) resolution; these limits are generally one to two orders of magnitude larger than the expected sources of cosmic flux. A variety of source mechanisms have been postulated to radiate in this bandpass; the most discussed is the hot phase of the interstellar medium. A speculative possibility is that hot dark matter in the form of massive, radiatively unstable neutrinos in our Galaxy will produce a unique line in this bandpass. We describe an instrument employing a new type of spectrometer which will provide ~5 Å resolution and unprecedented sensitivity for diffuse EUV radiation. The instrument will be carried aboard the newly developed Spanish Minisat satellite.

scholarly journals ORFEUS observation of the central star of NGC 6543

1997 ◽  
Vol 180 ◽  
pp. 136-136
Author(s):  
J. Zweigle ◽  
M. Grewing ◽  
J. Barnstedt ◽  
M. Gölz ◽  
W. Gringel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spectral Resolution ◽  
Planetary Nebula ◽  
Extreme Ultraviolet ◽  
Wavelength Region ◽  
Central Star ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Satellite Mission ◽  
Ultraviolet Spectrometer ◽  
Far Ultraviolet ◽  
The University

During the ORFEUS-SPAS (Orbiting Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer on the Shuttle Pallet Satellite) mission STS-51, flown in September 1993, we observed the central star of the planetary nebula NGC 6543 in the far ultraviolet (90 nm to 115 nm) wavelength region using the University of California, Berkeley spectrometer with a spectral resolution of 0.03 nm.

Spectral Observations of the Extreme Ultraviolet Astronomical Background Radiation

1988 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 63-66
Author(s):  
S. Labov ◽  
S. Bowyer
Keyword(s):  
Interstellar Medium ◽  
Background Radiation ◽  
Extreme Ultraviolet ◽  
Grazing Incidence ◽  
Sounding Rocket ◽  
Interstellar Space ◽  
Spectral Measurements ◽  
Interstellar Gas ◽  
Hot Plasma ◽  
Far Ultraviolet

AbstractObservations in the far ultraviolet and soft x-ray bands suggest that the interstellar medium contains several components of high temperature gas (105to 106K). If large volumes of local interstellar space are filled with this hot plasma, emission lines will be produced in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV). Diffuse EUV radiation, however, has only been detected with photometric instruments; no spectral measurements exist below 520Å. We have designed a unique grazing incidence spectrometer to study the diffuse emission between 80 and 650Å with 10 to 30Å resolution. This instrument was successfully flown on a sounding rocket in April of 1986 and a preliminary analysis reveals several features. In addition to the expected interplanetary He I 584Å emission and the geocoronal He II 304Å emission, other features appear which may originate in the hot ionized interstellar gas. These features are discussed along with the possible implications to the hot phase of the interstellar medium.

Carbon and Beryllium Extreme Ultraviolet Filters: Far-ultraviolet Performance

1987 ◽  
Vol 34 (11) ◽  
pp. 1491-1500 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.A. Barstow ◽  
B.J. Kent ◽  
M.J. Whiteley ◽  
P.H. Spurrett
Keyword(s):  
Extreme Ultraviolet ◽  
Far Ultraviolet

scholarly journals 1/4 Ke V Diffuse Background and the Local Interstellar Medium

1989 ◽  
Vol 120 ◽  
pp. 536-536
Author(s):  
S.L. Snowden
Keyword(s):  
Interstellar Medium ◽  
Filling Factor ◽  
Thermal Emission ◽  
Mean Free Path ◽  
Physical Parameters ◽  
X Rays ◽  
Local Interstellar Medium ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Diffuse Background ◽  
X Ray Background

The 1/4 keV diffuse X-ray background (SXRB) is discussed in relation to the local interstellar medium (LISM). The most likely source for these soft X-rays is thermal emission from a hot diffuse plasma. The existence of a non-zero flux from all directions and the short ISM mean free path of these X-rays (1020HI cm-2), coupled with ISM pressure constraints, imply that the plasma has a local component and that it must, at least locally (nearest hundred parsecs), have a large filling factor. Our understanding of the geometry and physical parameters of the LISM is therefore directly tied to our understanding of the SXRB.

scholarly journals ‘Sumer’ – Solar Ultraviolet Measurements of Emitted Radiation

1994 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 619-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Wilhelm ◽  
W. Curdt ◽  
A. H. Gabriel ◽  
M. Grewing ◽  
M. C. E. Huber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spectral Resolution ◽  
Extreme Ultraviolet ◽  
Flow Characteristics ◽  
Magnetic Activity ◽  
High Accuracy ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Lower Corona ◽  
Doppler Shifts ◽  
Solar Magnetic Activity ◽  
Solar Ultraviolet

AbstractThe experiment Solar Ultraviolet Measurements of Emitted Radiation (SUMER) is designed for the investigations of plasma flow characteristics, turbulence and wave motions, plasma densities and temperatures, structures and events associated with solar magnetic activity in the chromosphere, the transition zone and the corona. Specifically, SUMER will measure profiles and intensities of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lines emitted in the solar atmosphere ranging from the upper chromosphere to the lower corona; determine line broadenings, spectral positions and Doppler shifts with high accuracy; provide stigmatic images of selected areas of the Sun in the EUV with high spatial, temporal and spectral resolution and obtain full images of the Sun and the inner corona in selectable EUV lines, corresponding to a temperature range from 104to more than 1.8 x 106K. The spatial and spectral resolution capabilities of the instrument will be considered in this contribution in some detail, and a new detector concept will be introduced.

Phase-locked, time-delayed, harmonic pulses for high spectral resolution in the extreme ultraviolet: errata

2001 ◽  
Vol 26 (21) ◽  
pp. 1729
Author(s):  
M. Bellini ◽  
S. Cavalieri ◽  
C. Corsi ◽  
M. Materazzi
Keyword(s):  
Spectral Resolution ◽  
Extreme Ultraviolet ◽  
High Spectral Resolution

The Interstellar Medium in the Far Ultraviolet

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Christopher Howk ◽  
Michael E. Van Steenberg ◽  
George Sonneborn ◽  
H. Warren Moos ◽  
William P. Blair
Keyword(s):  
Interstellar Medium ◽  
Far Ultraviolet
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