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NASA NTRS2013

Svetloe Radio Astronomical Observatory

This report summarizes information about the Svetloe Radio Astronomical Observatory activities in 2012. Last year, a number of changes took place in the observatory to improve some technical characteristics and to upgrade some units to their required status. The report provides an overview of current geodetic VLBI activities and gives an outlook for the future.

Smolentsev, Sergey↗
NASA NTRS1988

21st century astronomical observatories on the moon

The advantages and disadvantages of building astronomical observatories on the moon are described. Several modest facilities that could be placed near an early lunar base are described, such as a 1-m optical telescope and a gamma-ray burst detector. Several more elaborate observatories are discussed, such as a lunar far-side very low frequency array, an optical interferometer, and a moon-earth ultralong baseline radio interferometer.

Burns, Jack O.↗
NASA NTRS1973

Astronomical observatory for shuttle. Phase A study

The design, development, and configuration of the astronomical observatory for shuttle are discussed. The characteristics of the one meter telescope in the spaceborne observatory are described. A variety of basic spectroscopic and image recording instruments and detectors which will permit a large variety of astronomical observations are reported. The stDC 37485elines which defined the components of the observatory are outlined.

Guthals, D. L.↗
NASA NTRS1982

Results from the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory. XLI - Photometry of M31 and M33

Filter photometry observations from the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory, in six wavelength bands between 1550 and 4250 A, are reported for several positions along the major and minor axes in M31 and at some positions in M33. The spatial resolution is 10 arcmin. The colors along the major axis of M31 within about 20 arcmin of the nucleus are similar to the nucleus; at 45 arcmin the colors are much bluer, indicating a spiral arm population. This behavior is expected from other observations of H I, CO, and early-type stars, which are all concentrated in a ring of material whose inner edge is about 7 kpc (= 35 arcmin) from the nucleus. The center of M33 is bluer than the ring of M31, and the arms of M33 even bluer. There are no colors too blue to be explained (within observational error) by unreddened B stars.

Davis, J.↗
NASA NTRS2012

The ISS as a Testbed for Future Large Astronomical Observatories: The OpTIIX Demonstration Program

Future large (diameters in excess of approx. 10 m) astronomical observatories in space will need to employ advanced technologies if they are to be affordable. Many of these technologies are ready to be validated on orbit and the International Space Station (ISS) provides a suitable platform for such demonstrations. These technologies include low-cost, low-density, highly deformable mirror segments, coupled with advanced sensing and control methods. In addition, the ISS offers available telerobotic assembly techniques to build an optical testbed that embodies this new cost-effective approach to assemble and achieve diffraction-limited optical performance for very large space telescopes. Given the importance that NASA attaches to the recommendations of the National Academy of Sciences "Decadal Survey" process, essential capabilities and technologies will be demonstrated well in advance of the next Survey, which commences in 2019. To achieve this objective, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) are carrying out a Phase A/B study of the Optical Testbed and Integration on ISS eXperiment (OpTIIX). The overarching goal is to demonstrate well before the end of this decade key capabilities intended to enable very large optical systems in the decade of the 2020s. Such a demonstration will retire technical risk in the assembly, alignment, calibration, and operation of future space observatories. The OpTIIX system, as currently designed, is a six-hexagon element, segmented visual-wavelength telescope with an edge-to-edge aperture of 1.4 m, operating at its diffraction limit,

Burdick, G.↗