Using the CeSiC material for the WSO-UV spectrographs

Reutlinger, Arnd; Sachkov, Mikhail; Gal, C.; Brandt, C.; Haberler, P.; Zuknik, Karl-Heinz; Sedlmaier, T.; Шустов, Б. М.; Moisheev, A. A.; Kappelmann, N.; Barnstedt, J.; Werner, K.

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“…COS is expected to continue remain in operation at least through 2016. In addition to the outstanding scientific return of the COS instrument, lessons learned from COS will benefit future UV space missions, such as the World Space Observatory FUV and NUV Spectrographs (Reutlinger et al 2011;Shustov et al 2011).…”

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The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph: on-orbit instrument performance

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The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) was installed in the Hubble Space Telescope in May, 2009 as part of Servicing Mission 4 to provide high sensitivity, medium and low resolution spectroscopy at far-and nearultraviolet wavelengths (FUV, NUV). COS is the most sensitive FUV/NUV spectrograph flown to date, spanning the wavelength range from 900 Å to 3200 Å with peak effective area approaching 3000 cm 2 . This paper describes instrument design, the results of the Servicing Mission Orbital Verifi-

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The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph: on-orbit instrument performance

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Froning

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“…In this instrument was used MCP detector as well. CeSiC material was selected for the spectrograph construction (Reutlinger et al 2011). …”

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WSO‐UV project for high‐resolution spectroscopy and imaging

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During the last three decades, astronomers have had practically continuous access to the 100-300 nm spectral range that is unreachable with ground-based instruments but where astrophysical processes can be efficiently studied with unprecedented capability since the resonance lines of the most abundant atoms and ions at temperatures between 3 000 and 300 000 K are in the UV. The successful International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) observatory, Russian ASTRON mission and successor instruments such as the COS and STIS spectrographs on-board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) demonstrate the major impact that observations in the UV wavelength range have had on modern astronomy. The access to space-based observatories is very limited. For the next decade, for the post-HST era, the World Space Observatory UltraViolet (WSO-UV) will be the only large telescope class mission for UV observations, both spectroscopic and imaging. By its potential, the WSO-UV mission is similar to the HST, though it exceeds the HST/STIS in sensitivity by a factor 5-10, but all the observing time will be available for UV astronomy. In this paper, we briefly outline the WSO-UV mission model, instrumentation description, science management plan as well as some of the key science issues that WSO-UV will address during its lifetime.

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“…CeSiC is a ceramic matrix composite that is characterized by high stiffness and mechanical strength, high thermal conductivity, low CTE, and quick, relatively inexpensive manufacturing time. These characteristics make CeSiC a suitable material at reasonable cost for high-precision space optical and structural applications although the practice of the phase-B study has demonstrated that the CeSiC technology requires additional studies to obtain the stable characteristics of this new prospective construction material (Reutlinger et al 2011). Such characteristics will make it possible to perform detailed spectral observations and analyses of objects up to V = 17 m (Klochkova et al 2009;Sachkov 2010).…”

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World space observatory-ultraviolet among UV missions of the coming years

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Continuous access to the UV domain has been considered of importance to astrophysicists and planetary scientists since the mid-sixties. However, the future of UV missions for the post-HST era is believed by a significant part of astronomical community to be less encouraging. We argue that key science problems of the coming years will require further development of UV observational technologies. Among these hot astrophysical issues are: the search for missing baryons, revealing the nature of astronomical engines, properties of atmospheres of exoplanets as well as of the planets of the Solar System etc. We give a brief review of UV-missions both in the past and in the future. We conclude that UV astronomy has a great future but the epoch of very large and efficient space UV facilities seems to be a prospect for the next decades. As to the current state of the UV instrumentation we think that this decade will be dominated by the HST and coming World Space ObservatoryUltraviolet (WSO-UV) with a 1.7 m UV-telescope onboard. The international WSO-UV mission is briefly described. It will allow high resolution/high sensitivity imaging and B. Shustov · M. Sachkov ( )

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Using the CeSiC material for the WSO-UV spectrographs

Cited by 41 publications

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The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph: on-orbit instrument performance

The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph: on-orbit instrument performance

WSO‐UV project for high‐resolution spectroscopy and imaging

World space observatory-ultraviolet among UV missions of the coming years

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