Cosmic Origins Spectrograph Instrument Handbook for Cycle 17

Acknowledgments

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The technical and operational information contained in this Handbook is the summary of the experience gained by members of the STScI COS Team and by the COS IDT at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

Current and former members of the STScI COS Team include Alessandra Aloisi (lead), Tom Ake, Tom Donaldson, Linda Dressel, Scott Friedman, Phil Hodge, Mary Beth Kaiser, Tony Keyes, Claus Leitherer, Matt McMaster, Melissa McGrath, Cristina Oliveira, David Sahnow, Ken Sembach, Brittany Shaw, David Soderblom, and Alan Welty. All of these individuals contributed to this volume, as did Russ Makidon and Brittany Shaw.

The COS IDT includes James Green (Principal Investigator), Cynthia Froning (Project Scientist), Steven Penton, Steven Osterman (Instrument Scientist), Stéphane Béland, and Matthew Beasley, all of whom provided information and assistance. COS co-investigators are Dennis Ebbets (Ball Aerospace), Sara R. Heap (GSFC), Claus Leitherer (STScI), Jeffrey Linsky (University of Colorado), Blair D. Savage (University of Wisconsin-Madison), J. Michael Shull (University of Colorado), Oswald Siegmund (University of California, Berkeley), Theodore P. Snow (University of Colorado), John Spencer (Southwest Research Institute), and John T. Stocke (University of Colorado). K. Brownsberger, J. Morse, and E. Wilkinson have also been part of the COS IDT and have made significant contributions.

The prime contractor for COS is Ball Aerospace, Boulder CO. The XDL detector was built at UC Berkeley by O. Siegmund, J. McPhate, J. Vallerga, and B. Welsh.

The Editor thanks Susan Rose for her contributions to the production of this Handbook.

References and Additional Information

This document has relied heavily on the information provided by the COS team in Boulder. The primary documents used are:

Morse, J. 2003, Cosmic Origins Spectrograph Science Operations Requirements Document, rev. 23 (referred to as OP-01).

Wilkinson, E. 2002, COS Calibration Requirements and Procedures, rev. B. (referred to as AV-03).

Wilkinson, E. 2004, COS Prelaunch Calibration Data, initial release (referred to as AV-04).

We also used the STIS Instrument Handbook (Kim Ouijano et al. 2003, v7.0).