FORTIS: Pathfinder to the lyman continuum

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5488, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 709-718

  McCandliss, Stephan R ^a   France, Kevin ^a   Feldman, Paul D ^a   Glazebrook, Karl ^a   Meurer, Gerhardt ^a   Blanchi, Luciana ^a   Moos, H Warren ^a   Kruk, Jeffrey W ^a   Blair, William P ^a   Baldry, Ivan ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffuse radiation; Ultraviolet instruments; Ultraviolet:galaxies; Wide field spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; GAS EMISSIONS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IONIZING RADIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPACE TELESCOPES; ULTRAVIOLET INSTRUMENTS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

DIFFUSE RADIATION; FORTIS; ULTRAVIOLET:GALAXIES; WIDE-FIELD SPECTROSCOPY;

ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 10044231841     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552799     Document Type: Conference Paper

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