银河演化探测器的轨道性能
天体物理学
2011-05-05 v1
摘要
我们报告了银河演化探测器（GALEX）在轨道上第一年的性能结果。GALEX是一枚NASA小型探测器，正在对天空进行两个紫外波段的观测。该仪器包括一台直径50厘米的改进型Ritchey-Chretien望远镜，视场为1.25度，可选用的成像和目标光谱仪模式，以及创新的光学系统，采用薄膜多层色片分束器，使两组光子计数、微通道板延迟线读出探测器能够同时成像。初始测量表明，GALEX的性能良好，满足了分辨率、效率、测星定位、波段定义和观测灵敏度的所有要求。
引用
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0411310,
title = {The On-Orbit Performance of the Galaxy Evolution Explorer},
author = {P. Morrissey and D. Schiminovich and T. A. Barlow and D. C. Martin and B. Blakkolb and T. Conrow and B. Cooke and K. Erickson and J. Fanson and P. G. Friedman and R. Grange and P. N. Jelinsky and S. C. Lee and D. Liu and A. Mazer and R. McLean and B. Milliard and D. Randall and W. Schmitigal and A. Sen and O. H. W. Siegmund and F. Surber and A. Vaughan and M. Viton and B. Y. Welsh and L. Bianchi and Y. -I. Byun and J. Donas and K. Forster and T. M. Heckman and Y-W Lee and B. F. Madore and R. F. Malina and S. G. Neff and R. M. Rich and T. Small and A. Szalay and T. Wyder},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0411310},
year = {2011}
}
备注
This paper will be published as part of the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) Astrophysical Journal Letters Special Issue