Computer Science – Sound
Scientific paper
Jan 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21548005k&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #480.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.569
Computer Science
Sound
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This paper overviews the supporting optical technologies for an ultraviolet integral field spectrograph (IFS) that will be used for future space astrophysics missions. The new technology is an all-reflective image slicer that directs light to an array of imaging diffraction gratings. Previous UV instruments recorded the spectra of point sources or spatially resolved elements along a long slit. Our IFS has only one reflection more than the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph for Hubble Space Telescope, which is the most sensitive UV spectrograph yet built, but is limited to point sources. An efficient UV IFS enables simultaneous spectroscopy of many spatially resolved elements within a contiguous two dimensional field of view in diagnostically important ultraviolet lines. The output is thus a data cube having one spectral and two spatial coordinates. This is the astrophysical analog to hyperspectral imaging in Earth sciences.
The scientific benefits of such an instrument were developed during Vision Missions, Origins Probes, and Astrophysics Strategic Mission Concept Studies between 2004 and 2009. Implementation can be scaled for a small payload such as a sounding rocket or Explorer-class mission, leading to a flight experiment within the next few years. Of particular interest would be the application of this technology for an instrument on a version of the Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST) which will have an 8+-m aperture.
We will focus on the spectral region near Lyman alpha, but the all-reflective approach is applicable to other spectral regions when matched with wavelength appropriate gratings and detectors. Our project is a collaboration between Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., the University of Colorado, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the Space Telescope Science Institute, all of which have extensive experience with the science and instrumentation for UV astrophysics.
Beasley Matthew
Ebbets Dennis
Hardesty Chuck
Kendrick Stephen
Sembach Kenneth
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