The Hubble Spectroscopic Legacy Archive
Abstract
With no future space ultraviolet instruments currently planned, the data from the UV spectrographs aboard the Hubble Space Telescope have a legacy value beyond their initial science goals. The goal of the Hubble Spectroscopic Legacy Archive(HSLA) is to provide to the community new science-grade combined spectra for all publicly available data obtained by the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS)and the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS). These data are packaged into "smart archives" according to target type and scientific themes to facilitate the construction of archival samples for common science uses. A new "quick look" capability makes the data easy for users to quickly access, assess the quality of,and download for archival science. The first generation of these products for the far-ultraviolet (FUV) modes of COS was made available online via the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) in early 2016 and updated in early 2017; future releases will include COS/NUV and STIS/UV data.
- Publication:
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Instrument Science Report COS 2017-4
- Pub Date:
- April 2017
- Bibcode:
- 2017cos..rept....4P
- Keywords:
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- Hubble Space Telescope;
- HST;
- Space Telescope Science Institute;
- STScI;
- Cosmic Origins Spectrograph;
- COS;
- far ultraviolet;
- far-ultraviolet;
- FUV