FIREBALL: The first ultraviolet fiber fed spectrograph

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7732, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Tuttle, Sarah E ^a   Schiminovich, David ^a   Grange, Robert ^c   Rahman, Shahin ^b   Matuszewski, Mateusz ^b   Milliard, Bruno ^c   Deharveng, Jean Michel ^c   Martin, D Christopher ^b  

^a Astronomy Department ^*  (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

CGM; Cosmology; Fiber spectrograph; FIREBALL; IGM; Integral Field Spectroscopy; UV Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CGM; FIREBALL; IGM; INTEGRAL FIELD SPECTROSCOPY; UV SPECTROSCOPY;

COSMOLOGY; FIBERS; GAS ABSORPTION; GAS BURNERS; INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPECTROGRAPHS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 77957885619     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857877     Document Type: Conference Paper

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