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Calibration of the Berkeley EUV Airglow Rocket SpectrometerThe Berkeley Extreme-ultraviolet Airglow Rocket Spectrometer (BEARS), a multiinstrument sounding rocket payload, made comprehensive measurements of the earth's dayglow. The primary instruments consisted of two near-normal Rowland mount spectrometers: one channel to measure several atomic oxygen features at high spectral resolution (about 1.5 A) in the band passes 980-1040 and 1300-1360 A, and the other to measure EUV dayglow and the solar EUV simultaneously in a much broader bandpass (250-1150 A) at moderate resolution (about 10 A). The payload also included a hydrogen Lyman-alpha photometer to monitor the solar irradiance and goecoronal emissions. The instrument was calibrated at the EUV calibration facility at the University of California at Berkeley, and was subsequently launched successfully on September 30, 1988 aboard a four-stage experimental sounding rocket, Black Brant XII flight 12.041 WT. The calibration procedure and resulting data are presented.
Document ID
19900063229
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Cotton, Daniel M.
(California Univ. Berkeley, CA, United States)
Chakrabarti, Supriya
(California Univ. Berkeley, CA, United States)
Siegmund, Oswald
(California, University Berkeley, United States)
Date Acquired
August 14, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1989
Subject Category
Instrumentation And Photography
Meeting Information
Meeting: EUV, X-ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy and Atomic Physics
Location: San Diego, CA
Country: United States
Start Date: August 7, 1989
End Date: August 11, 1989
Accession Number
90A50284
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NGL-05-003-497
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG5-646
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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