Little mirror, big science

James C. Green

doi:10.1117/12.924106

17 September 2012 Little mirror, big science

James C. Green

Proceedings Volume 8443, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 844302 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.924106
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

It will be decades before a flagship class mission in the ultraviolet will be implemented to succeed the Hubble Space Telescope. However, advances in technology can enable smaller aperture systems to achieve and surpass HST sensitivity by reducing attacking the noise portion of the signal/noise calculation. Through the use of ultra-low noise photon counting detectors, low scatter optics, and optical design, instruments in the ultraviolet can be developed that can attack critical science questions that cannot be addressed by current instrumentation, even in an Explorer class mission.

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James C. Green "Little mirror, big science", Proc. SPIE 8443, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 844302 (17 September 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.924106

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