COS Publications & Presentations

Welcome to the COS publications and presentations page. This page contains an up to date listing of all published work relating to the Cosmic Origin Spectrograph scientific mission and hardware. To download a copy of the paper simply click on the highlited area and a *.PDF file will be downloaded to your Web browser.

• COS Science & Mission Related Papers:
  • Green, J.C. 2000,
    "The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph",
    Proc. Soc. Photo-Opt. Instrum. Eng., 4013, p. 352
  • Green, J.C., Morse, J.A., Andrews, J.P., Wilkinson, E., Siegmund, O.H.W., Ebbets, D. 1999,
    "Performance of the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph for the Hubble Space Telescope",
    in Ultraviolet-Optical Space Astronomy Beyond HST conference proceedings, eds J. A. Morse, J. M. Shull, A. L. Kinney, Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, 164, p. 176-181
  • Morse, J.A., et al. 1998,
    "Performance overview and science goals of the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph for the Hubble Space Telescope",
    Procedings SPIE, 3356, p. 361-368
  • Green, J.C. 1998,
    "Cosmic Origins Spectrograph: a Hubble replacement instrument for the 2002 reservicing mission",
    Proceedings SPIE, 3356, p. 265-270
  • Green, J.C., Morse, J.A., the COS Instrument Definition Team 1997,
    "The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph: A 2002 Replacement Instrument for the Hubble Space Telescope",
    Ultraviolet Astrophysics, Beyond the IUE Final Archive, eds. W. Wamsteker, R. Gonzalez Riestra, B. Harris, ESA SP-413, p. 805-808

• COS Hardware Related Papers:
  • Wilkinson, E., Penton, S., Béland, S., Vallerga, J., McPhate, J., Sahnow, D., 2001
    "Algorithm for correcting Geometric Distortions in Delay Line Anodes",
    SPIE, 46th Annual Meeting on Optical Science and Technology
  • Vallerga, J., McPhate, J., Martin, A., Gaines, G., Siegmund, O., Wilkinson, E., Penton, S., Béland, S., 2001
    "The HST-COS Far Ultraviolet Detector: Final Ground Calibration",
    SPIE, 46th Annual Meeting on Optical Science and Technology
  • Osterman, S. N., Wilkinson, E., Green, J. C., Redman, K. W. 2001,
    "Cosmic Origins Spectrograph FUV grating performance",
    SPIE, 46th Annual Meeting on Optical Science and Technology
  • Osterman, S. N., Wilkinson, E., Green, J. C., Redman, K. W. 2000,
    "FUV grating performance for the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph",
    Proc. Soc. Photo-Opt. Instrum. Eng., 4013, p. 360
  • Vallerga, J.H., McPhate, J.B., 2000,
    "Optimization of the Readout Electronics for Microchannel Plate Delay Line Anodes",
    Proceedings SPIE, 4139, p. TBD
  • McPhate, J.B., Siegmung, O.H., Gaines, G., Vallerga, J.H., Hull, J. 2000,
    "The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph FUV Detector",
    Proceedings SPIE, 4139, p. TBD
  • Vallerga, J., Zaninovich, J., Welsh, B., Siegmund, O., McPhate, J., Hull, J., Gaines, G., Buzasi, D. 1999
    "The FUV detector for the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope",
    5th International Conference on Position-Sensitive Detectors, University College, London, Sept. 13 1999, to appear in Nuclear Instruments and Methods, 2000

• Upcoming Presentations:
  • Learn more about the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph first hand at the SPIE's International Symposium Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2000
    (http://www.spie.org/info/as)

• Publication Related Links:
  • To find other COS related papers connect to the Astrophysics Data System at
    http://adsabs.harvard.edu/ads_services.html and use the key words cosmic origins spectrograph, hst, and ultraviolet.

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If you publish a paper related to COS and would like it posted on this page, contact Dr. Erik Wilkinson
Erik.Wilkinson@colorado.edu

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