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The International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Yoji Kondo
Yoji Kondo*
Affiliation:
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, U.S.A.

Abstract

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The International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) was launched into a geosynchronous orbit on 26 January 1978. It is equipped with a 45-cm mirror and spectrographs operating in the far-ultraviolet (1150–2000 Å) and the mid-ultraviolet (1900–3200 Å) wavelength regions. In a low-dispersion mode, the spectral resolution is some 6–7 Å. In a high-dispersion echelle mode, the resolution is about 0.1 Åat the shortest wavelength and about 0.3 Åat the longest. It is a collaborative program among NASA, ESA and the British SERC. The IUE is operated in real time 16 hours a day from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center near Washing ton, D.C. and 8 hours daily from ESA’s Villafranca groundstation near Madrid, Spain. By the end of 1989, 1870 papers, using IUE observations, have been published in refereed journals. During the same period, over 1700 different astronomers from all over the world used the IUE for their research.

Type
I. Current Missions
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 123: Observatories in Earth Orbit and Beyond , 1990 , pp. 35 - 40
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990

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