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astro-ph.IM2026

LP-Infinity: overcoming limits to the number of lifetime positions in the COS FUV channel

David J. Sahnow, Christian I. Johnson

Since the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) was installed on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in 2009, thousands of spectra have been collected with the Far Ultraviolet (FUV) chann…

astro-ph.IM2026

COS2035: Extending COS/FUV Operations Through the 2030s

Marc Rafelski, David Sahnow, Christian I. Johnson +29

The far-ultraviolet (FUV) detector of the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) accumulates gain sag where photons land, and without continued mitigation this degradation would render…

astro-ph.IM2024

Pushing the limits of the Cosmic Origin Spectrograph (COS) with an optimized background correction

Svea Hernandez, Andrei Igoshev, Jo Taylor +2

Observations utilizing the ultraviolet capabilities of the Cosmic Origin Spectrograph (COS) onboard the Hubble Space Telescope are of unique value to the astronomy community. Spect…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 112 cited

The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph: On-Orbit Instrument Performance

S. Osterman, J. Green, C. Froning +31

The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) was installed in the Hubble Space Telescope in May, 2009 as part of Servicing Mission 4 to provide high sensitivity, medium and low resolution…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 3 cited

ACCESS: Enabling an Improved Flux Scale for Astrophysics

Mary Elizabeth Kaiser, Jeffrey W. Kruk, Stephan R. McCandliss +20

Improvements in the precision of the astrophysical flux scale are needed to answer fundamental scientific questions ranging from cosmology to stellar physics. The unexpected discov…