RT Journal Article
T1 World space observatory-ultraviolet among UV missions of the coming years
A1 Shustov, Boris
A1 Sachkov, Mikhail
A1 Gómez De Castro, Ana Inés
A1 Werner, Klaus
A1 Kappelmann, Norbert
A1 Moisheev, Alexander
AB Continuous access to the UV domain has been considered of importance to astrophysicists and planetary scientists since the mid-sixties. However, the future of UV missions for the post-HST era is believed by a significant part of astronomical community to be less encouraging. We argue that key science problems of the coming years will require further development of UV observational technologies. Among these hot astrophysical issues are: the search for missing baryons, revealing the nature of astronomical engines, properties of atmospheres of exoplanets as well as of the planets of the Solar System etc. We give a brief review of UV-missions both in the past and in the future. We conclude that UV astronomy has a great future but the epoch of very large and efficient space UV facilities seems to be a prospect for the next decades. As to the current state of the UV instrumentation we think that this decade will be dominated by the HST and coming World Space Observatory-Ultraviolet (WSO-UV) with a 1.7 m UV-telescope onboard. The international WSO-UV mission is briefly described. It will allow high resolution/high sensitivity imaging and high/low resolution spectroscopy from the middle of the decade.
PB Springer
SN 0004-640X
YR 2011
FD 2011-09
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42227
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42227
LA eng
NO Shustov, B., Sachkov, M., Gómez De Castro, A. I. et al. «World Space Observatory-Ultraviolet among UV Missions of the Coming Years». Astrophysics and Space Science, vol. 335, n.o 1, septiembre de 2011, pp. 273-82. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-011-0737-3.
DS Docta Complutense
RD 12 abr 2025