The detector for the far ultraviolet channel of the imaging instrument (FCU) on board the Spectrum-UV (WSO-UV) space telescope

Ana I. Gómez de Castro; Laura Díez; Javier Yañez; Iván Prada; Alejandra Araujo; Alejandra Salinas; Xavi LLamas; Mikhail Sachkov; Andrey Shugarov

doi:10.1117/12.2560330

13 December 2020 The detector for the far ultraviolet channel of the imaging instrument (FCU) on board the Spectrum-UV (WSO-UV) space telescope

Ana I. Gómez de Castro, Laura Díez, Javier Yañez, Iván Prada, Alejandra Araujo, Alejandra Salinas, Xavi LLamas, Mikhail Sachkov, Andrey Shugarov

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Proceedings Volume 11444, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 114446I (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560330
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Spectr-UV/WSO-UV is the third and last of the Spektr missions (Spektr-Radio, Spektr-RG, Spektr-UF), space-based observatories, of the Russian Scientific Space Program. Spektr-UF/WSO-UV is a 2-m class ultraviolet (UV) observatory to be set in geosynchronous orbit in 2025 from the Vostochny launching pad. The observatory is equipped with instrumentation for UV spectroscopy and imaging. The Universidad Complutense de Madrid together with Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences are developing jointly the imaging instrument for the mission. The instrument has a UV-optical channel designed for wide field imaging from 174 to 600 nm and a far UV (FUV) channel for high resolution imaging in the 115-175 nm range. Also, some low dispersion spectroscopic capabilities are available in the FUV channel. In this contribution, the characteristics and architecture of the MCP detector being developed by Spain for the FUV channel are described.

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Ana I. Gómez de Castro, Laura Díez, Javier Yañez, Iván Prada, Alejandra Araujo, Alejandra Salinas, Xavi LLamas, Mikhail Sachkov, and Andrey Shugarov "The detector for the far ultraviolet channel of the imaging instrument (FCU) on board the Spectrum-UV (WSO-UV) space telescope", Proc. SPIE 11444, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 114446I (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560330

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