Physics
Scientific paper
May 2001
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Solar Physics, v. 200, Issue 1/2, p. 63-73 (2001).
Physics
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Scientific paper
The Very-high-resolution Advanced ULtraviolet Telescope (VAULT) experiment was successfully launched on 7 May 1999 on a Black Brant sounding rocket vehicle from White Sands Missile Range. The instrument consists of a 30 cm UV diffraction limited telescope followed by a two-grating, zero-dispersion spectroheliograph tuned to isolate the solar Lα emission line. During the flight, the instrument successfully obtained a series of images of the upper chromosphere with a limiting resolution of ~0.33 arc sec. The resulting observations are the highest-resolution images of the solar atmosphere obtained from space to date. The flight demonstrated that sub-arc second ultraviolet images of the solar atmosphere are achievable with a high-quality, moderate-aperture space telescope and associated optics. Herein, we describe the payload and its in-flight performance.
Cook William J.
Dere Ken P.
Howard Russ A.
Korendyke Clarence Marinus
Morrill Jeff S.
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