UV Club
Welcome to the UV club. The purpose of this club is to discuss the current landscape of UV missions and prospectives for the future.
To this end, S. R. Kulkarni is arranging a series of talks followed by discussions. Each talk will last an hour and there will be 30 minutes for Q&A. The lecturer will be requested to spend half the time on pedagogy and the other half on the latest findings or advances.
Ilaria Caiazzo (ilariac@caltech.edu) and Jan van Roestel (jvanroes@caltech.edu) will function as secretaries for this club, please email either of them if you’d like to be added to the mailing list.
A nice summary of everything UV can be found here: https://rwoconne.github.io/rwoclass/astr511/UV-astron-f03.html (website by Robert O’Connell, suggested by Jayant Murthy and Boris Shustov).
Upcoming Talks
- Fiona Harrison and the UVEX team, Caltech. The UVEX mission, Date TBD
Past Talks
- S. R. Kulkarni, Caltech. The FUV Background, Wednesday October 27, 8 am PDT.
- Suggested paper: Kulkarni 2021
- Recording
- Slides
- Carlos Vargas, University of Arizona. Aspera: Revealing the Diffuse Universe, Wednesday October 20, 8 am PDT.
- Recording
- Suggested papers:
- for science background: Tumlinson et al. 2017
- instrument hardware: Chung et al. 2021
- on the warm-hot CGM using archival FUSE data: Chung, Vargas & Hamden 2021
- James Green, University of Colorado Boulder. The philosophy and design of the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph; Probing Galaxy Halos, Wednesday October 13, 8 pm PDT.
- Slides
- Suggested papers: Green et al. 2012, Zheng et al. 2019, Lehner et al. 2020
- Evgenya Shkolnik, Arizona State University. UV-SCOPE and SPARCS: Large and Small UV Windows into Exoplanets and their Environments, Wednesday October 6, 8 am PDT
- Recording
- Suggested papers: Loyd et al. 2021, Scowen et al. 2020
- Keri Hoadley, Caltech. FIREBall-2, Wednesday September 29, 8 am PDT
- Recording
- Slides
- Suggested papers:
- about FIREBall-2: Hamden et al. 2020,
- aboutthe the new EMCCD technology used in FIREBall: Gillian et al. 2020
- Hu Zhan, National Astronomical Observatory Chinese Academy of Sciences. Xuntian, the Chinese Space Station Telescope, Wednesday September 22, 8 am PDT
- Slides
- Recording
- Suggested reading material:
- Brief introduction to the CSST survey Gong et al. 2019
- Description of the mission (in Chinese, English at the end of the document): Zhan 2021
- Erika Hamden, University of Arizona. Hyperion, Aspera, and building your own UV telescope, Wednesday September 15, 8 am PDT
- Slides
- Recording
- Suggested material:
- About OVI emission: Haeun, Vargas and Hamden 2021
- Website for the PI Launchpad (how to develop a mission proposal)
- Rolf Buehler, DESY. The ULTRASAT Camera system, Wednesday September 8, 8 am PDT
- Suggested papers: Asif et al. 2021, Bastian-Querner et al. 2021
- Slides
- Recording
- Eli Waxman, Weizmann Institute of Science. ULTRASAT, Wednesday September 1, 8 am PDT
- Suggested papers: Sagiv et al. 2014, Arcavi 2018, Rubin & Gal-Yam 2017
- Slides
- Recording
- Kevin France, University of Colorado Boulder. ESCAPE mission, Wednesday August 25, 8 am PDT
- Slides
- Recording
- Suggested papers:
- for an ESCAPE mission overview France et al. 2020,
- for science summaries of extreme-UV observations of cool stars Youngblood et al. 2019 a,
- and of exoplanet influences Youngblood et al. 2019 b.
- Shyam Narayan Tandon, Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Pune, Bengaluru. Observing in UV, Wednesday August 4, 8 am PDT
- Suggested papers. For UVIT: Tandon et al 2017, Tandon et al 2020. For MCP Detectors: Tremsin et al. 2020.
- Slides
- Recording
- John Hennessy, JPL. Improving sensitivity for UV observations, Wednesday July 28, 8 pm PDT.
- Suggested papers: Nikzad et al 2012, Hoenk et al. 2014, Hennessy et al. 2015, Nikzad et al. 2017
- Recording
- Patrick Côté, University of Victoria. CASTOR, Wednesday July 21, 8 am PDT
- Suggested papers: Capak et al 2019 (most relevant), Graham et al 2020, Fantin et al 2020, Scott et al 2021
- Slides
- Recording
- Yoichi Yatsu, Tokyo Institute of Technology. PETREL UV Mission, Tuesday July 13, 8 am PDT.
- Suggested paper: Yatsu et al 2018
- Slides
- Recording
- Brad Cenko, NASA Goddard. Dorado, Wednesday July 7, 8 am PDT.
- Suggested paper: Sagiv et al. 2014
- Recording
- Suggested paper: Sagiv et al. 2014
- Roger Smith, Caltech. UV Sensor for Astronomy. Wednesday June 30, 8 pm PDT.
- Suggested reading material: white paper Hamamatsu CMOS, Tiffenberg et al. 2017
- Slides
- Recording
- Boris Shustov, Science director of the Institute of Astronomy of Moscow. Spectr-UF, Friday June 25, 8 am PDT.
- Suggested paper: Shustov et al. 2018
- Slides
- Recording
- J. Michael Shull, University of Colorado Boulder. Cosmic Origin Spectrograph: Missing Baryons & Reionization, Tuesday June 15, 8 am PDT.
- Suggested papers: Shull – COS overview, Green 2012
- Slides
- Recording
- Christopher Martin, Caltech. GALEX, Wednesday June 9, 8 am PDT.
- Suggested reading material
- Slides.
- Recording. Please mind that there were a few technical problems during the talk.
- Jayant Murthy, Indian Institute of Astrophysics. UV Astronomy and UVIT (ASTROSAT), Wednesday May 26, 8 am PDT.
- Suggested papers: Charles 1995, Rahna et al. 2017, Mattila & Väisänen 2019
- Slides
- Recording
