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Observing ultraviolet signatures of interstellar organics with the Hubble Space Telescope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2008

Theodore P. Snow
Theodore P. Snow*
Affiliation:
Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, University of Colorado389 UCBBoulder, CO 80309-0389U.S.A. e-mail: tsnow@casa.colordao.edu
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Abstract

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The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) will be more sensitive for ultraviolet spectroscopy than either the GHRS or the STIS, especially in the far UV where many absorption lines and bands formed by atoms and molecules have electronic transitions from the ground state. Here we outline our plans for using the COS to observe interstellar gas and dust in the cold ISM, along with a report on the results of preliminary archival HST search for UV diffuse interstellar bands.

Keywords

ISM: cloudsISM: moleculesultraviolet: ISMastrobiologyspace vehicles: instruments
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 4 , Symposium S251: Organic Matter in Space , February 2008 , pp. 63 - 66
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2008

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