Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
May 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011aas...21840913b&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #218, #409.13; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
The Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT) was a key component of the Astro Observatory, a package of telescopes that flew on the space shuttle as part of two dedicated astronomy missions, Astro-1 in December 1990 (STS-35), and Astro-2 in March 1995 (STS-67). HUT was a 0.9m telescope and prime-focus spectrograph operating primarily in the far-ultraviolet 900 - 1800 Angstrom spectral region, returning spectra with about 3 Angstrom resolution. Over 330 objects were observed during the two shuttle missions, and the data were originally archived at the NSSDC (NASA/GSFC), before moving to MAST, the Multimission Archive at Space Telescope.
As part of a NASA Astrophysics Data Program grant, we are reprocessing and re-archiving this unique data set in a modern and more user-friendly format. Additional file-header keywords include the RA and Dec in J2000 coordinates, the aperture position angle, and target-magnitude and color information. A new data product, similar to the Intermediate Data Files developed for the FUSE mission, provides a flux- and wavelength-calibrated photon-event list with two-second time resolution. These files will allow users to customize their data extractions (e.g., to search for temporal variations in flux or exclude times of bad pointing). The reprocessed data are fully compliant with NVO specifications. They will be available from MAST starting in late 2011.
We acknowledge support from NASA ADP grant NNX09AC70G to the Johns Hopkins University.
Blair William Patrick
Dixon V.
Kruk Jeffrey
Romelfanger M.
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