Spectroscopic equipment for the Space Telescope

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Astronomical Spectroscopy, Spaceborne Astronomy, Spaceborne Telescopes, Spectrographs, Faint Object Camera, High Resolution, Stellar Magnitude, Ultraviolet Spectra

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The Space Telescope will provide views of the Universe of remarkable clarity. Central to its capabilities is an f/24 Ritchey-Chretien telescope with 40,000 sq cm unobscured collecting area, which will provide point-source images less than 0.1 sec in radius at wavelengths below 633 nm. It will operate over the range 110 nm to 1 mm. The initial flight instrumentation includes two spectrographs, the Faint Object Spectrograph (F.O.S.) and the High-Resolution Spectrograph (H.R.S.). The F.O.S. is sensitive from 115 to 800 nm. It will provide data at resolving powers 1000-100 on extremely faint sources. The H.R.S. operates at the wavelengths 107-320 nm. It will achieve high photometric accuracy at resolving powers 100,000, in the echelle mode, or 10,000-1000 in first order, on brighter targets. The two cameras on board the Space Telescope will provide ancillary spectroscopic capabilities.

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