The Very high Angular Resolution ULtraviolet Telescope experiment was successfully launched on May 7, 1999 on a Black Brant sounding rocket vehicle from White Sands Missile Range. The instrument consists of a 30 cm UV diffraction limited telescope followed by a double grating spectroheliograph tuned to isolate the solar Lyman (alpha) emission line. During the flight, the instrument successfully obtained a series of images of the upper chromosphere with a limiting resolution of approximately 0.33 arc-seconds. The resulting observations are the highest resolution images of the solar atmosphere obtained from space to date. The flight demonstrated that subarc-second ultraviolet images of the solar atmosphere are achievable with a high quality, moderate aperture space telescope and associated optics. Herein, we describe the payload and its in- flight performance.


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    Titel :

    In-flight performance of the Very high Angular resolution ULtraviolet Telescope sounding rocket payload


    Beteiligte:
    Korendyke, Clarence M. (Autor:in) / Vourlidas, A. (Autor:in) / Cook, John W. (Autor:in) / Dere, Kenneth P. (Autor:in) / Feldman, R. (Autor:in) / Howard, Russell A. (Autor:in) / Lilley, D. N. (Autor:in) / Morrill, Jeff S. (Autor:in) / Moses, J. Daniel (Autor:in) / Moulton, Norman E. (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    Instrumentation for UV/EUV Astronomy and Solar Missions ; 2000 ; San Diego,CA,United States


    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    18.12.2000





    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch