Space observatories |
Space observatories |
Apr 11 2007, 05:17 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 72 Joined: 22-December 05 Member No.: 616 |
I’m loosing track of observation missions so I turned to UMSF again
The last few years many space agencies planned space-based telescopes such as CNES with COROT (2006), NASA with WISE (2009) and James Webb Telescope (2013), ESA with Herschel-FIRST (2008) and DARWIN-formation (2020). Can anyone point out a table which specifies what part of the electromagnetic spectrum each of these are using? And which are used for finding extra-solar planets? Danke! |
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Apr 11 2007, 06:47 PM
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Well, there’re basically 6 methods to detect planets around other stars (extrasolar planets): Direct imaging (using coronagraph to minimize the light of star), Astrometry (positional astronomy), Radial Velocity method (Doppler-effect), Transit photometry (planet transits its star), Microlensing (gravitational bending of light) and the Timing method which in fact lead to the first detection of a planet outside our solar system by timing the signal difference between the extrasolar planet and its star orbiting a common point of gravity.
Indeed, there’re a lot of space-based telescopic observation missions, each using a specific part of the electro-magnetic spectrum ( Gamma-rays , X-rays, Visible , InfraRed , Radio ). Putting together an overview list might be a good idea for some kind of ‘reference’ section here on UMSF... I found the following on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_t...ving_technology |
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Apr 11 2007, 08:34 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
It's a bit out of date, but:
http://img.search.com/thumb/f/fb/Space_tel..._telescopes.jpg For some reason this opens a much reduced version - if you type 'space telescopes' into google images you'll get straight to the proper version at the 10th choice or so. There's also this: http://seds.org/~spider/oaos/oaos.html |
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Apr 11 2007, 09:07 PM
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Superb find indeed, the higher resolution space telescopes image is at:
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/astro/astrolist.jpg |
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Guest_PhilCo126_* |
Sep 13 2007, 06:46 PM
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Anyone attending ?
ESA and Astrium are jointly inviting the media to a press conference in Friedrichshafen, Germany, on 19 September 2007, to hear about Herschel far-infrared space observatory, a revolutionary spacecraft, its scientific objectives, and to view the very heart of its hardware. Journalists are allowed to make photos in the clean room! |
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Sep 13 2007, 08:24 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14431 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
If I could afford to take the time off work - I'd go - 400D and tripod in tow....but sadly, the grim reality of 'normal' life takes priority. I've already done Rosetta and Europlanet on my 'holiday' time.
Doug |
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Sep 19 2007, 01:55 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
Anyone attending ? ESA and Astrium are jointly inviting the media to a press conference in Friedrichshafen, Germany, on 19 September 2007, to hear about Herschel far-infrared space observatory, a revolutionary spacecraft, its scientific objectives, and to view the very heart of its hardware. Journalists are allowed to make photos in the clean room! ESA release for the event, with lots of images, including a great animation of Herschel's build-up. But this...man...this is a work of Art!... -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
Edgar Alan Poe |
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Sep 19 2007, 02:16 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Yes, it is!
HIFI has more stacked DB-9 connectors than I've ever seen in my life. Hope that doesn't cause problems... -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Oct 8 2007, 08:07 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 124 Joined: 23-March 06 Member No.: 723 |
I'm not sure what's going to happen with TPF, last I read on it said it was "deferred indefinitely" which usually means canceled. However NASA is becoming a politically active topic again as the US Senate voted to include an additional billion for the 2008 budget.
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Oct 8 2007, 10:20 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 213 Joined: 21-January 07 From: Wigan, England Member No.: 1638 |
Although TPF funding has been problematic, it has thankfully been resolved for this year, which has enabled good progress in the TPF-I and TPF-C technology testbeds.
-------------------- "I got a call from NASA Headquarters wanting a color picture of Venus. I said, “What color would you like it?” - Laurance R. Doyle, former JPL image processing guy
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Apr 25 2008, 03:34 PM
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Meanwhile, at HST's 18th anniversary, some new images of colliding galaxies were shown to the public:
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/in...fobjectid=42690 and http://heritage.stsci.edu/ |
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Jan 28 2012, 01:06 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 796 Joined: 27-February 08 From: Heart of Europe Member No.: 4057 |
My first information graphic (it's made in older IPE 6):
Graphic contains most of the space observatories (unmanned) observing electromagnetic radiation from deep space, which were observing for more than one month and which provide us with useful data. Horizontal scale is in years and main (left) vertical logarithmic scale represents wavelength of electromagnetic radiation in meters. First half of the right logarithmic scale depicts frequency of electromagnetic radiation and second half depicts energy of photon corresponding to wavelength of electromagnetic radiation. Each observatory is represent by the rectangle, where width depicts lifetime, height depicts spectral coverage and color depicts state of origin (ESRO/ESA missions are labeled as "Europe"). Some observatories with significantly different areas of spectral coverage are represent with more than one rectangle. These rectangles are then connected by dotted lines. -------------------- |
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Jan 28 2012, 05:26 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 697 Joined: 3-December 04 From: Boulder, Colorado, USA Member No.: 117 |
Excellent! I always appreciate this kind of "big picture" graphic.
John |
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Jan 28 2012, 08:38 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 87 Joined: 9-November 07 Member No.: 3958 |
What John said - and it helps with realizing how much of the sky has (not) been under observation in various ways over time. This will send me scurrying back to see whether some of the early Cosmos and USNO piggyback experiments operated for more than a month (or was that already factored in to the selection?)
If it's OK with machi, this graphic might be making an appearance in my next "observation and data analysis" class, being much easer to digest than a more-than-page-long table... |
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Jan 28 2012, 09:17 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 796 Joined: 27-February 08 From: Heart of Europe Member No.: 4057 |
"Excellent! I always appreciate this kind of "big picture" graphic."
Thanks! "This will send me scurrying back to see whether some of the early Cosmos and USNO piggyback experiments operated for more than a month (or was that already factored in to the selection?)" You can compare graphic with this HEASARC list of missions. Only few missions are excluded, mostly missions with lower importance for (extrasolar) astronomy, manned missions (Salyut, Shuttle, Kvant), military missions with lower importance for astronomy (DMSP) and interplanetary missions. I suppose, that this isn't last version of this graphic, so I can add some other missions in future. "If it's OK with machi, this graphic might be making an appearance in my next "observation and data analysis" class, being much easer to digest than a more-than-page-long table." It's OK. -------------------- |
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