Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment Virtual Observatory Resource

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Abstract

The Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment (WUPPE) was the spectropolarimetry component of the three ASTRO instruments that flew on Space Shuttle missions in December 1990 and March 1995. A halfwave spectropolarimeter provided medium resolution spectropolarimetry for research into the interstellar medium, hot stars, stars with circumstellar material, interacting binary stars, novae, solar system objects, and active galaxies. A Lyot analyzer obtained low resolution observations of faint targets, but due to calibration problems did not produce scientifically useful data. The WUPPE instrument provides a unique data set, one of the few providing polarimetric data in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum.

Keywords
  1. Interstellar medium
  2. Hot stars
  3. Binary stars
  4. AGN
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http://archive.stsci.edu/wuppe/
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ivo://archive.stsci.edu/wuppe
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History

2004-11-22T12:22:45Z
Resource record created

Contact

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Randy Thompson
E-Mail
archive@stsci.edu