The WSO, a world-class observatory for the ultraviolet
Abstract
The World Space Observatory is an unconventional space project proceeding via distributed studies. The present design, verified for feasibilty, consists of a 1.7-meter telescope operating at the second Largangian point of the Earth-Sun system. The focal plane instruments consist of three UV spectrometers covering the spectral band from Lyman alpha to the atmospheric cutoff with R~55,000 and offering long-slit capability over the same band with R~1,000. In addition, a number of UV and optical imagers view adjacent fields to that sampled by the spectrometers. Their performance compares well with that of HST/ACS and the spectral capabilities of WSO rival those of HST/COS.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0209333,
title = {The WSO, a world-class observatory for the ultraviolet},
author = {M. A. Barstow and L. Binette and N. Brosch and F-Z. Cheng and M. Dennefeld and A. I. Gomez de Castro and H. Haubold and K. A. van der Hucht and N. Kappelmann and P. Martinez and A. Moisheev and I. Pagano and E. N. Ribak and J. Sahade and B. Shustov and J. -E. Solheim and W. Wamsteker and K. Werner and H. Becker-Ross and S. Florek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0209333},
year = {2009}
}
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11 pages, including 7 figures and 5 tables To be published in Proc SPIE, vol 4854