Far-Ultraviolet Performance of the Berkeley Spectrograph During the ORFEUS-SPAS II Mission

Details Far-Ultraviolet Performance of the Berkeley Spectrograph During the ORFEUS-SPAS II Mission Far-Ultraviolet Performance of the Berkeley Spectrograph During the ORFEUS-SPAS II Mission

1998-04-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9804161v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

LaTeX file, 12 pages, 2 encapsulated PostScript figures. Uses aaspp4.sty. To appear in The Astrophysical Journal (Letters). Th

Scientific paper

10.1086/311388

The Berkeley spectrograph aboard the ORFEUS telescope made its second flight on the 14-day ORFEUS-SPAS II mission of the Space Shuttle Columbia in November/December 1996. Approximately half of the available observing time was dedicated to the Berkeley spectrograph, which was used by both Principal and Guest Investigators. The spectrograph's full bandpass is 390-1218 A; here we discuss its in-flight performance at far-ultraviolet (FUV) wavelengths, where most of the observations were performed. The instrument's effective area peaks at 8.9 +/- 0.5 cm^2 near 1020 A, and the mean spectral resolution is 95 km/s FWHM for point sources. Over most of the spectral range, the typical night-time background event rate in each spectral resolution element was about 0.003/s. Simultaneous background observations of an adjacent blank field were provided through a secondary, off-axis aperture. The Berkeley spectrograph's unique combination of sensitivity and resolution provided valuable observations of approximately 105 distinct astronomical targets, ranging in distance from the earth's own moon to some of the brightest AGN.

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