New Results from a Recently Refurbished Hubble Space Telescope

by Prof. John Stocke (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)

Tuesday 2 Mar 2010, 11:30 → 12:30 Asia/Kolkata

D-405 (Colaba Campus)

In this talk I will highlight results obtained from the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS), installed on the Hubble Space Telescope last May. COS is 10--30 times more sensitive than previous UV spectrographs on Hubble at a resolution of ~ 20,000. I will describe some first results from observations made with COS by the Instrument Team, especially in the areas of the Intergalactic Medium and Extra-Solar Planets