COS in One Orbit

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May 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007aas...210.8604s&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society Meeting 210, #86.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.195

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph will be the most powerful ultraviolet spectrograph ever to operate with the Hubble Space Telescope. It is designed to be used on point sources and provides low (R = 2,500) and medium (R = 24,000) resolving powers, but it is especially sensitive in its far-UV channel, from about 1150 to 2000 A. For prospective users we illustrate several examples of scientific observations that can be achieved in a single orbit of HST time, including both Galactic and extragalactic targets of various types. Using existing observations and the COS Exposure Time Calculator, we show relations between a source's UV flux, exposure time, signal-to-noise achieved, and emission line flux uncertainty.

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