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NASA’s Great Observatories“an astronomical Mount Rushmore”
Spitzer Chandra
Compton Hubble
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Gains in orbit
• No atmospheric blurring
• Wider accessible wavelength range
• Instrumental stability
• No clouds/daylight (timing)
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HUBBLE
Past
…future?
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Some HST Science highlights
• Structures of distant galaxies
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Some HST Science highlights
• Structures of distant galaxies
• Hubble constant from Cepheid variable stars
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Some HST Science highlights
• Structures of distant galaxies
• Hubble constant from Cepheid variable stars
• Black holes in (almost all) galactic nuclei
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Some HST Science highlights
• Structures of distant galaxies
• Hubble constant from Cepheid variable stars
• Black holes in (almost all) galactic nuclei
• Protoplanetary material near young stars
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Some HST Science highlights
• Structures of distant galaxies
• Hubble constant from Cepheid variable stars
• Black holes in (almost all) galactic nuclei
• Protoplanetary material near young stars
• Gravitational lenses
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Some HST Science highlights
• Structures of distant galaxies
• Hubble constant from Cepheid variable stars
• Black holes in (almost all) galactic nuclei
• Protoplanetary material near young stars
• Gravitational lenses
• Intergalactic gas and its history
• Stuff scattered all the way through the textbooks
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Supernova progenitor in M51
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(Li et al. in press)
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Gravitational microlensing in NGC 3314
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Instrument history
1990: FGS HSP FOS GHRS FOC WF/PC1993: FGS CoSTAR FOS GHRS FOC WFPC21997: FGS CoSTAR NICMOS STIS FOC WFPC22002: FGS CoSTAR NICMOS STIS ACS WFPC2
200? COS, WFC3
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Hubble status, August 2005
• Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph dead (only high-res/small-region spectrometer)• 3 of 6 gyros (RSUs) functional (3 normally needed, 2-
gyro mode successful in tests)• Battery capacity decreasing (will be useless circa
2010)• Estimated 50% failure time on above: 2007• Instrument/transmitter power cycling now reduced by
rescheduling/eliminating parallel imaging
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UPDATE 31 AUG 05 – 2 GYROSDAILY REPORT # 3934 PERIOD COVERED: UT August 29, 2005 (DOY 241)
All commanding for the transition to Two Gyro Science mode was successful. Commanding included modifying control law gains for T2G, loading FSW support files for TGS, modifying +D SPA commanding in new TGS safemode macros, transitioning to TGS mode, and performing a full RAM dump. Transition to TGS mode took place at 241/0217.The first FGS guide acquisition at 0812 was successful, as have all subsequent acquisitions. Jitter in F2G (FGS/2 Gyro mode) was measured at approximately 3 milliarcseconds. All three acquisitions performed have been successful with no LOL.
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Options
• Shuttle SM4 (O’Keefe ruled out, CAIB concerns, Griffin optimistic)
• Replace the whole thing (HOP proposal to refly COS/WFC3)
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Shuttle?
• “Safe haven” would mean standby orbiter
• Limited remaining flights earmarked to ISS
• Need for independent orbital inspection
• Victim of the Vision?
• Orbital mechanics: 28.5-degree inclination, getting heaviest payloads highest from Cape Canaveral, restricts options now
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Servicing non-options
• Prohibitive energy requirements to co-orbit with ISS in reach of astronauts
• 28-degree orbit out of reach from Baikonur (ITAR restrictions aside)
• Ion thrusters would take the estimated telescope lifetime for orbit change
• ~2015-30 estimated deorbit without boosting
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Replace capabilities?
• Technology since 1980: lots cheaper. Thin flexible mirrors, lightweight structures, stabilize mirrors rather than structure…
• Unique access to optical/UV range• Plan on table to fly 2.4m mirror with
existing HST instruments (Hubble Origins Probe or HOP); could be as low as $250M.
• Need to decide who gets the instruments!
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Final servicing status
• Current policy: do not preclude
• Depends on next (2?) STS flight results
• COS, WFC3, STIS repair, batteries, gyros
• Deorbit module status unclear
• Target: late 2007
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Next up: JWST
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James Webb Space Telescope
• Launch 2011, on Ariane V, to L2 region
• 6.5m deployable primary
• 0.6-20 microns (far red to mid-IR)
• Key problems: formation of galaxies, first stars, maybe planets
• Spacecraft weight/mirror area ratio roughly that of Hubble mirror alone!
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Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory
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Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory
• Deployed April 1991 by Atlantis crew. Deorbited mid-2000.
• Distribution, distance of gamma-ray bursts
• Gamma-ray blazars, relativistic beaming
• Microquasars
• Radioisotopes in interstellar medium
• Successors: Swift, INTEGRAL, GLAST
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And at other wavelengths…
Chandra and its complement XMM-Newton
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The galactic-center black hole and its attendants
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Hot gas between galaxies
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The chemistry of a supernova
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Fireball impact in Supernova 1987A
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The history of black holes – a Chandra deep field
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Spitzer Space Telescope
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Spitzer Space Telescope
• Warm launch, radiative cooling
• Cryogen management, 2 years of 5+ so far
• Earth-trailing heliocentric orbit
• 2 cameras, 2 spectrographs, 3.6-160 m
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Temperatures of extrasolar planets
Direct detection of IR from two “hot Jupiters” during eclipses, two wavelengths give temperature estimates
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Looking into dusty star cradles
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Across the spectrum - now
FarIR MidIR nearIR opt UV farUV X-ray gamma
Spitzer
Hubble Chandra
GALEX
FUSE
INTEGRAL
WMAP
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Multispectral Greatest Hits
• Intergalactic gas• Starburst galaxies• High-redshift galaxies• Evaporating planets• Protoplanetary disks• Growth of black holes• Complexity of stardeath
• Gamma-ray bursts• Supernova chemistry• Quasar jets• Stripped galaxies• Pregalactic lumps• Galaxy history• Relativistic jets
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A panchromatic view -spiral galaxy M81
ROSATGALEXKitt PeakSpitzerVLA
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Across the spectrum - soon
FarIR MidIR nearIR opt UV farUV X-ray gamma
Spitzer
Hubble? Chandra and XMM
GALEX?
FUSE? INTEGRAL
Planck
Herschel
Swift
SIMTPF?
JWST
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A new Universe to explore
• The full electromagnetic spectrum
• Open international competition for observations
• Public data archives (without mailing tapes!)
• The beginnings of the Virtual Observatory
• But astronomers think about facilities differently from NASA and ESA…