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Laboratory Needs of Current and Future Space Spectroscopic Astrophysics Missions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

S. N. Shore
S. N. Shore*
Affiliation:
GHRS Science Team/CSC Code 681, Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbelt, MD 20771, USA

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Astrophysics bears a distinct relation to Robin Hood’s robbing from the data rich and giving to the poor, in this case, observers. The basic data obtained from laboratory investigation is essential to the understanding of the diverse cosmic environments with which observers and modelers have to deal.

The broad areas of investigation pioneered in the ultraviolet by the International Ultraviolet Explorer satellite (IUE) and certain to be the focus of the spectrographs on the Hubble Space Telescope and FUSE/Lyman are: 1. planetary atmospheres, magnetospheres and comets; 2. stellar atmospheres; and 3. H II regions and diffuse interstellar gas. The last of these is to be understood in both Galactic and extragalactic contexts. These illustrate the diversity of the required data, and also highlight the existing lacunae in the available data sets. I shall touch briefly in this note on each of them.

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Joint Commission Meetings
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Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 9: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XXIst General Assembly of the IAU, 1991 , 1992 , pp. 555 - 556
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1992

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