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The Berkeley Spectrometer for ORFEUS: Laboratory and In-Flight Performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Mark Hurwitz  and
Stuart Bowyer
Mark Hurwitz
Affiliation:
Center for EUV Astrophysics, 2150 Kittredge Street, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-5030, USA
Stuart Bowyer
Affiliation:
Center for EUV Astrophysics, 2150 Kittredge Street, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-5030, USA

Abstract

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The Berkeley spectrometer aboard the ORFEUS payload achieved a variety of “firsts” during its inaugural mission in September 1993. The instrument utilizes spherical gratings with mechanically ruled varied line-spacing, and curved microchannel plate detectors with delay-line anode readout systems, to cover the 390 – 1200 Å band at a resolution of λ/5000. The instrument will be discussed, and its performance illustrated with calibration and in-flight spectra. Science highlights from the ORFEUS-I mission will be presented (oral presentation only). The payload will be available for use by guest investigators during the ORFEUS-II mission currently scheduled for late 1996.

Type
XIV. Future Opportunities in EUV Astronomy
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 152: Astrophysics in the Extreme Ultraviolet , 1996 , pp. 601 - 609
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996

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