[Baps] CSP Seminar - 11/12/09

[Paul Withers]

This seminar is probably of marginal planetary interest (I think the 
speaker's main interests are in galatic astronomy, despite the mention 
of Jupiter in the abstract), but may be of significant interest to any 
astronomical colleagues at your institution.

Paul

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Subject: [Csp_seminar] CSP Seminar - 11/12/09
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:21:50 -0500
From: Despina Bokios <dbokios at bu.edu>
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*Center for Space Physics*

Speaker: Randy Kimble
Affiliation: NASA Goddard
Title: A Powerful New Imager for HST: Performance and Early Results of 
Wide Field Camera 3
Date/Time: Thursday, November 12th, 2009, 4PM

Place: 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 502
Refreshments: 3:30PM, Room 500

Abstract:

Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) was installed into the Hubble Space Telescope 
during the highly successful Servicing Mission 4 in May, 2009.  WFC3 
offers sensitive, high resolution imaging over a broad wavelength range 
from the near UV through the visible to the near IR (200nm - 1700nm). 
Its capabilities in the near UV and near IR ends of that range represent 
particularly large advances vs. those of previous HST instruments.  In 
this talk, I will review the purpose and design of the instrument, 
describe its performance in flight, and highlight some of the initial 
scientific results from the instrument, including its use in deep 
infrared surveys in search of galaxies at very high redshift, in 
investigations of the global processes of star formation in nearby 
galaxies, and in the study of the recent impact on Jupiter.

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