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Imaging Large– and Small–Scale Structures of the Far Ultraviolet Background with the Faust Instrument

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2017

M. Lampton ,
S. Bowyer  and
J. M. Deharveng
M. Lampton
Affiliation:
Center for EUV Astrophysics University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
S. Bowyer
Affiliation:
Center for EUV Astrophysics University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
J. M. Deharveng
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Astronomie Spatiale Marseille, France

Abstract

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The FAUST telescope is an ultraviolet survey instrument that features a wide 8° field of view, ~1′ angular resolution, and a photon counting detector. Operating in the 1400–1800 Å band, it will be sufficiently sensitive to detect blue mv =17 objects in a single 20 minute night. The instrument is part of the ATLAS-1 shuttle mission, presently scheduled for flight in May 1991. A substantial number of high galactic latitude fields will be investigated, with particular emphasis on studies of the origin of the diffuse far UV background.

Type
V. Future Plans and Approaches
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 139: The Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation , 1990 , pp. 449 - 452
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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