1. The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph: On-Orbit Instrument Performance
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Osterman, S., Green, J., Froning, C., Béland, S., Burgh, E., France, K., Penton, S., Delker, T., Ebbets, D., Sahnow, D., Bacinski, J., Kimble, R., Andrews, J., Wilkinson, E., McPhate, J., Siegmund, O., Ake, T., Aloisi, A., Biagetti, C., Diaz, R., Dixon, W., Friedman, S., Ghavamian, P., Goudfrooij, P., Hartig, G., Keyes, C., Lennon, D., Massa, D., Niemi, S., Oliveira, C., Osten, R., Proffitt, C., Smith, T., and Soderblom, D.
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics - Abstract
The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) was installed in the Hubble Space Telescope in May, 2009 as part of Servicing Mission 4 to provide high sensitivity, medium and low resolution spectroscopy at far- and near-ultraviolet wavelengths (FUV, NUV). COS is the most sensitive FUV/NUV spectrograph flown to date, spanning the wavelength range from 900{\AA} to 3200{\AA} with peak effective area approaching 3000 cm^2. This paper describes instrument design, the results of the Servicing Mission Orbital Verification (SMOV), and the ongoing performance monitoring program., Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Astrophysics and Space Science
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- 2010
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