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The WSO-UV mission
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The World Space
Observatory for Ultraviolet (WSO-UV) is an
international collaboration led by Russia to build a
UV (102-310 nm) mission with capabilities which are presently,
in the near and long term future unavailable to the world-wide
astronomical community. The mission consists of a 1.7m telescope
able to perform:
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high resolution
(R~55,000) spectroscopy by means of two echelle
spectrographs covering the 100-310 nm range;
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long slit (1 x 75
arcsec) low resolution (R~1500-2500) spectroscopy;
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deep UV and
diffraction limited optical imaging.
It will be operated like a ground-based
telescope, i.e. capable to perform “real time'' operations in a
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Recent past events
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The Field Camera Unit
The Italian contribution to WSO-UV was funded by the Italian Space
Agency in 2007. The activity for Phase A/B1 were supported under contract
ASI/INAF No. I/085/06/0.
The FCU was the main Italian contribution to WSO/UV.
The FCU consisted of three imaging channels:
- FUV: 115-190 nm, 0.2 arcsec/px, 6.6x6.6 arcmin2
- NUV: 150-280 nm, 0.03 arcsec/px, 1x1 arcmin2
- UVO: 200-700 nm, 0.07 arcsec/px, 4.7x4.7 arcmin2
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The Italian Sapce Agency (ASI) withdrew from WSO-UV project on Mar 2008.
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