Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Oct 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993apj...415..875b&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal v.415, p.875
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
39
Artificial Satellites, Space Probes, Instrumentation: Detectors, Telescopes, Ultraviolet: General, Ultraviolet: Stars
Scientific paper
In 1992 March the Far Ultraviolet Space Telescope was flown as part of the NASA ATLAS-1 mission. We describe the in-flight instrument performance and provide a preliminary view of some of the results. Twenty-two wide-field far-ultraviolet images were obtained. At this stage of our analysis, we have far-ultraviolet photometry for more than 4800 sources; the overwhelming majority of these are below the TD-1 satellite far-ultraviolet detection limit. In these images, we detect sources to a flux limit of 1 × 10-14 ergs s-1 cm-2 Å-1, which is at least an order of magnitude more sensitive than the TD-1 satellite, and we have virtually complete source detections to a level of 6 × 10-14 ergs s-1 cm-2 Å-1. Among the sources detected, we have identified a subset which show substantial far-ultraviolet excess.
Bowyer Stuart
Lampton Michael
Sasseen Timothy P.
Wu Xiaoyi
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