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Instrumentation for High-Resolution Stellar UV-Spectrophotometry
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2015
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The paper describes the high-resolution stellar UV-spectrometer, experiment S 59 for ESRO TD-1 A satellite. The experiment utilizes the orbit and attitude control characteristics of the TD-1 A to obtain spectra of about 1 Å resolution from a few hundred bright early type stars with an instrument of moderate size. Attitude control of this large three-axis stabilized spacecraft is such that observing-instruments can search the sky along ecliptic meridians which precess by 360°/annum so that complete sky coverage is obtained in half a year.
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- Part III: UV Astronomy
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 41: New Technique in Space Astronomy , 1971 , pp. 349 - 351
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- Copyright © Reidel 1971
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