Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment

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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Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/archive.stsci.edu/wuppe
Related Identifier http://archive.stsci.edu/wuppe/
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://archive.stsci.edu/wuppe
Provenance
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Publisher Space Telescope Science Institute Archive
Publication Year 2004
OpenAccess true
Contact Randy Thompson <archive(at)stsci.edu>
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Resource Type Other; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; High Energy Astrophysics; Interstellar medium; Natural Sciences; Physics; Stellar Astronomy