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In-flight Characterization and Calibration of the Juno-ultraviolet Spectrograph (Juno-UVS)
Gérard, Jean-Claude; Kammer, Joshua A.; Gladstone, G. Randall +9 more
Juno is the first polar orbiter around Jupiter. Juno possesses a suite of instruments designed to measure the electron and ion populations in the Jupiter magnetosphere, leading to the powerful Jovian aurorae. The Ultraviolet Spectrograph onboard Juno (Juno-UVS) is a photon-counting imaging spectrograph (68-210 nm), designed to observe and characte…
The Blueshift of the C IV Broad Emission Line in QSOs
Bian, Wei-Hao; Ge, Xue; Zhao, Bi-Xuan +1 more
For the sample from Ge et al. of 87 low-z Palomar-Green quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) and 130 high-z QSOs (0 < z < 5) with {{H}}β -based single-epoch supermassive black hole masses, we perform a uniform decomposition of the C IV λ1549 broad-line profile. Based on the rest frame defined by the [O III] λ5007 narrow emission line, a medium-stron…
He II Emission from Wolf-Rayet Stars as a Tool for Measuring Dust Reddening
Leitherer, Claus; Faisst, Andreas; Lee, Janice C.
We calibrated a technique to measure dust attenuation in star-forming galaxies. The technique utilizes the stellar-wind lines in Wolf-Rayet stars, which are widely observed in galaxy spectra. The He II 1640 and 4686 features are recombination lines whose ratio is largely determined by atomic physics. Therefore they can serve as a stellar dust prob…
A Correction for GALEX Spectroscopic UV Flux Distributions from Comparisons with CALSPEC and IUE
Bianchi, Luciana; Bohlin, Ralph C.
The CALSPEC database of absolute spectral energy distributions (SEDs) from the Hubble Space Telescope is based on pure hydrogen model atmosphere calculations for three unreddened white dwarf stars and represents the current UV flux calibration standard with a precision approaching 1% for well observed stars. Following our previous work to correct …
FUSE and IUE Spectroscopy of the Prototype Dwarf Nova ER Ursa Majoris During Quiescence
Sion, Edward M.; Godon, Patrick; Guzman, Giannina
ER Ursae Majoris is the prototype for a subset of SU UMa-type dwarf novae characterized by short cycle times between outburst, high outburst frequency, and negative superhumps. It suffers superoutbursts every 43 days, lasting 20 days, normal outbursts every 4 days, and has an outburst amplitude of 3 mag. We have carried out a far-ultraviolet (FUV)…