Final Calibration of the Berkeley Extreme and Far‐Ultraviolet Spectrometer on theORFEUS‐SPAS IandIIMissions | Zendy

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Final Calibration of the Berkeley Extreme and Far‐Ultraviolet Spectrometer on theORFEUS‐SPAS IandIIMissions

Author(s) -

W. V. Dixon,

J. Dupuis,

Mark Hurwitz

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

publications of the astronomical society of the pacific

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.294

H-Index - 172

eISSN - 1538-3873

pISSN - 0004-6280

DOI - 10.1086/337994

Subject(s) - spectrometer , physics , space shuttle , telescope , ultraviolet , calibration , remote sensing , optics , astronomy , geology , quantum mechanics

The Berkeley Extreme and Far-Ultraviolet Spectrometer (BEFS) flew as part ofthe ORFEUS telescope on the ORFEUS-SPAS I and II space-shuttle missions in 1993and 1996, respectively. The data obtained by this instrument have now enteredthe public domain. To facilitate their use by the astronomical community, wehave re-extracted and re-calibrated both data sets, converted them into astandard (FITS) format, and placed them in the Multimission Archive at SpaceTelescope (MAST). Our final calibration yields improved wavelength scales andeffective-area curves for both data sets.Comment: To appear in the January 2002 issue of the PASP. 17 pages with 9 embedded postscript figures; uses emulateapj5.st

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