Scientific Overviews


Far Ultraviolet Astronomy and Origins: The Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) Mission, W. Moos, K. Sembach, and L. Bianchi. Presented at the 1997 Origins Conference.

Science Team Observing Program for the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) Satellite , S. Friedman, W. Moos, K. Sembach, G. Kriss, E. Murphy, W. Oegerle, and the FUSE Science, Instrument, and Operations Teams. Presented at the June 1997 AAS meeting in Winston-Salem, NC.

The Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer: Mission Overview and Prospects for Studies of the Interstellar Medium and High Velocity Clouds [in postscript form, 5.4 Mb], Kenneth R. Sembach (full reference: Sembach, K.R. 1999, in the Stromlo Workshop on High Velocity Clouds, ASP Conf. Series 166, eds. B.K. Gibson & M.E. Putman, San Francisco: ASP), p. 243). Contains several useful tables of lines and wavelengths expected in the FUSE range and figures of simulated spectra, in addition to an overview of the FUSE PI team Science mission.

"Abundances of Deuterium, Nitrogen, and Oxygen in the Local Interstellar Medium: Overview of First Results from the FUSE Mission," by H. W. Moos et al., available in PDF and in postscript format [0.5 MB]. This paper has been published in 2002, ApJS, 140, pp. 3-18, but is included here for convenience.



straight to the top