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HUBE: The Hopkins Ultraviolet Background Experiment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2017

Randy A. Kimble ,
Richard C. Henry  and
Francesco Paresce
Randy A. Kimble
Affiliation:
1Center for Astrophysical Sciences The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
Richard C. Henry
Affiliation:
1Center for Astrophysical Sciences The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
Francesco Paresce
Affiliation:
1Center for Astrophysical Sciences The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 21218 USA 2Space Telescope Science Institute The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 21218 USA

Abstract

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The far-ultraviolet wavelength region between 1216 and ~2000 Å offers unusually favorable conditions for observing a variety of known or predicted diffuse emissions of both interstellar and extragalactic origin. We describe here a proposed instrument for studying those emissions, the Hopkins Ultraviolet Background Experiment (HUBE). HUBE consists of two compact, fast components: a broadband camera (1350-2000 Å) with 2′ resolution and an imaging spectrograph (1230-1800 Å) with 5 Å resolution. These complementary components will be utilized for both a sky survey and for sensitive deep pointings. As either a free-flying Scout-class satellite or as an attached payload on the Space Station, HUBE will make possible an investigation of unprecedented scope into the sources of the far ultraviolet background.

Type
V. Future Plans and Approaches
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 139: The Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation , 1990 , pp. 441 - 447
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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