The HST-COS far ultraviolet detector: Final ground calibration

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4498, Issue , 2001, Pages 141-151

  Vallerga, John ^a   McPhate, Jason ^a   Martin, Adrian ^a   Gaines, Geoff ^a   Siegmund, Oswald ^a   Wilkinson, Erik ^b   Penton, Steven ^b   Béland, Stephané ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmic origins spectrograph; Hubble space telescope; Microchannel plates; Ultraviolet detectors

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; OPTICAL DESIGN; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SPACE TELESCOPES; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROGRAPHS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

COSMIC ORIGINS SPECTROGRAPH; HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE; MICROCHANNEL PLATES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ULTRAVIOLET DETECTORS;

EID: 0035767996     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.450052     Document Type: Article

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