RT Journal Article
T1 WSO-UV project for high-resolution spectroscopy and imaging
A1 Sachkov, M.
A1 Shustov, B.
A1 Savanov, I.
A1 Gómez De Castro, Ana Inés
AB During the last three decades, astronomers have had practically continuous access to the 100-300 nm spectral range that is unreachable with ground-based instruments but where astro-physical processes can be efficiently studied with unprecedented capability since the resonance lines of the most abundant atoms and ions at temperatures between 3000 and 300000 K are in the UV. The successful International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) observatory, Russian ASTRON mission and successor instruments such as the COS and STIS spectrographs on-board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) demonstrate the major impact that observations in the UV wavelength range have had on modern astronomy. The access to space-based observatories is very limited. For the next decade, for the post-HST era, the World Space Observatory UltraViolet (WSO-UV) will be the only large telescope class mission for UV observations, both spectroscopic and imaging. By its potential, the WSO-UV mission is similar to the HST, though it exceeds the HST/STIS in sensitivity by a factor 5-10, but all the observing time will be available for UV astronomy. In this paper, we briefly outline the WSO-UV mission model, instrumentation description, science management plan as well as some of the key science issues that WSO-UV will address during its lifetime.
PB Wiley
SN 0004-6337
YR 2014
FD 2014-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/33510
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/33510
LA eng
NO Sachkov, M., Shustov, B., Savanov, I. & Gómez De Castro, A. I. «WSO‐UV Project for High‐resolution Spectroscopy and Imaging». Astronomische Nachrichten, vol. 335, n.o 1, enero de 2014, pp. 46-50. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1002/asna.201312015.
DS Docta Complutense
RD 9 abr 2025