Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993aas...182.2502k&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 182nd AAS Meeting, #25.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 25, p.827
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
In December 1990, the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT) flew on board the space shuttle Columbia as part of the Astro-1 mission. During the nine-day mission, HUT carried out a highly successful program of moderate resolution spectrophotometry of a wide variety of astronomical objects in both the far and extreme ultraviolet bands. Though HUT was designed primarily for observations in the 912--1860 Angstroms range (in particular for the little studied 912--1216 Angstroms region between the Lyman limit and Lyman alpha ), the design provided a significant capability for observations at EUV wavelengths from 420--912 Angstroms as well. Accordingly, a portion of HUT's observing time during the Astro-1 mission was devoted to spectroscopy of known or suspected EUV sources. These included the hot DA white dwarfs G191-B2B and HZ43 (ideal backdrops for an absorption study of the local interstellar medium), the active chromospheric/coronal emitters Capella and HR1099, the Io plasma torus, and the earth's upper atmosphere. The results obtained from HUT's EUV observations of these objects will be described.
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