Cosmic Origins
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Cosmic Origins Program Analysis Group
Events: Meetings

237th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society

Virtually Anywhere
11 – 15 January 2021


Ultraviolet and Visible light (UV-Vis) SIG and Technology Interest Group (TIG)

Thursday, 14 January 2021
12:00 Noon ET

Agenda

Topic Presenter
Introductory Remarks [PDF] Jason Tumlinson and Stephan McCandliss
101 Fun Things to do with Far-UV Fiber Optics [PDF] Brian Fleming, CU
SISTINE Mirror Coating Results [PDF] Nicholas Nell, CU
Dorado UV SmallSat Mission of Opportunity (Currently in Phase A) [PDF] Brad Cenko, GSFC
New UV Spotlights on Exoplanets with SPARCS and UV-SCOPE [PDF] Evgenya Shkolnik, ASU
Advances in UV Imaging Microchannel Plate Detectors for Future Missions [PDF] Oswald Siegmund, UCB
High Contrast with Segmented Apertures: Testbed Results [PDF] Laurent Pueyo, STScI
TechMAST: Technology Maturation for Astrophysics Space Telescopes [PDF] Alison Nordt, LMCO
ULTRA-TM: Progress towards hardware demonstrations for critical component level-technologies to enable ultra-stable optical systems [PDF] Laura Coyle, Ball
Aspera: Pioneering UV SmallSat [PDF] Carlos Vargas, UAz
New approaches to UV optical coatings with atomic layer engineering [PDF] John Hennessy, JPL
Improved broadband and narrowband far UV coatings [PDF] Juan Larruquert, CSIC
GSFC Microshutter Update [PDF] Alexander Kutyrev, UMD
Progress report for the NASA Probe Concept CETUS [PDF] Sara Heap, UMD/GSFC (emerita)
News
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Call for Community Input into the TESS Extended Mission Planning
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Astrophysics Technology Gaps Public Webinar | May 14th, 2024 2:00 – 3:00pm ET
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Diffuse Gas in Cosmic Ecosystems Science Interest Group (DGCE SIG) | May 23rd , 2024 – 4:00pm ET / 1:00pm PT
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