2 papers
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.IM2026
Reference File Updates Following the Application of New Geometric Distortion and Walk Corrections I: Overview
Nick Indriolo, William J. Fischer, Elaine Frazer +8
The calibration of Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) data is performed by the data processing pipeline known as CalCOS. CalCOS utilizes several reference files that store informati…