Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite Performance on the ground and in orbit

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May 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004apjs..152..137t&link_type=abstract

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Volume 152, Issue 1, pp. 137-162.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Instrumentation: Detectors, Instrumentation: Spectrographs, Radio Lines: General, Submillimeter, Techniques: Spectroscopic, Telescopes

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The Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS), which was launched in 1998 December, is a NASA mission dedicated to the study of interstellar chemistry and star formation. SWAS is conducting pointed observations of molecular clouds throughout our Galaxy in either the ground state or a low-lying transition of five astrophysically important species: O2, C I, H218O, 13CO, and H216O at approximately 487, 492, 548, 551, and 557 GHz, respectively. The SWAS instrument is comprised of a 54cm×68cm off-axis Cassegrain telescope feeding two independent heterodyne receivers with Schottky barrier diode mixers, passively cooled to about 175 K. An Acousto-Optical Spectrometer (AOS) provides ~1 MHz (0.6 km s-1) frequency resolution and 1400 MHz (840 km s-1) total bandwidth with 350 MHz (210 km s-1) per line for spectral analysis. SWAS was fully characterized during ground-based testing, and all performance parameters were verified on-orbit. During its on-orbit operation, SWAS observed more than 200 astronomical objects with more than 5000 lines of sight. This paper describes the tests conducted and compares the ground-based test results with the on-orbit test results.

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