3 papers
astro-ph.GA2026
Investigating HII Regions in the Disk of NGC 7331 with the Circumgalactic H Spectrograph
Nazende Ipek Kerkeser, Nicole Melso, David Schiminovich +3
We investigate the ionized gas kinematics of HII regions in the disk of NGC 7331 using integral field unit data collected with the Circumgalactic H Spectrograph (CHS). NGC…
astro-ph.IM2024
Advancing Ultraviolet Detector Technology for future missions: Investigating the dark current plateau in silicon detectors using photon-counting EMCCDs
Aafaque R. Khan, Erika Hamden, Gillian Kyne +14
Understanding the noise characteristics of high quantum efficiency silicon-based ultraviolet detectors, developed by the Microdevices Lab at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is criti…
astro-ph.IM2024
Optical alignment of contamination-sensitive Far-Ultraviolet spectrographs for Aspera SmallSat mission
Aafaque R. Khan, Erika Hamden, Haeun Chung +48
Aspera is a NASA Astrophysics Pioneers SmallSat mission designed to study diffuse OVI emission from the warm-hot phase gas in the halos of nearby galaxies. Its payload consists of…