Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment
Description
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.
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http://archive.stsci.edu%2Fwuppe%2F |
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http://archive.stsci.edu%2Fwuppe%2Fsearch.php%3F |
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http://archive.stsci.edu/wuppe/ |
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http://archive.stsci.edu/wuppe/search.php? |
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http://archive.stsci.edu/wuppe/search.php |