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Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment
Listed in NASA Data Portal
The Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment (WUPPE) was the spectropolarimetry component of the three ASTRO instruments that flew on Space Shuttle missions in December 1990 and March 1995.
Description
A halfwave spectropolarimeter provided medium resolution spectropolarimetry for research into the interstellar medium, hot stars, stars with circumstellar material, interacting binary stars, novae, solar system objects, and active galaxies.
A Lyot analyzer obtained low resolution observations of faint targets, but due to calibration problems did not produce scientifically useful data. The WUPPE instrument provides a unique data set, one of the few providing polarimetric data in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum.
Links
Get the data
- Resource archive.stsci.edu/wuppe ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- Resource archive.stsci.edu/wuppe/search.php ↗
download · from data nasa gov
Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/wisconsin-ultraviolet-photo-polarimeter-experiment ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=44a0b8ba-6be6-4eaf-94f8-61424339e… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
Provenance · 1 source records, 6 field assertions
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| NASA Data Portal | 44a0b8ba-6be6-4eaf-94f8-61424339e031 | 10 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| created_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | /notes |
| license_text | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | /title |
| updated_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 |