The Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE),
launched on June 24, 1999, covers the 905-1187 Å spectral region
and will obtain
high resolution spectra of
hot and cool stars, AGNs,
supernova remnants, planetary nebulae, solar system objects
as well as perform detailed studies of
the interstellar medium. FUSE will be able to observe sources
10 000 times fainter than Copernicus,
an early FUV mission, and has superior resolving power than
the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT) and
the Berkeley Spectrograph (BEFS) and the
Tübingen Echelle Spectrograph (TUES) of
the Orbiting Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet
Spectrometers (ORFEUS).
FUSE was planned for a 3 year lifetime with funding for an additional
2 years expected.
An
overview can be found by Moos et al., ApJ, 538, L1. A first discussion
of post-launch
post-launch performance is given by Sahnow et al., ApJ, 538, L7.
More information about the FUSE Guest Investigator program,
including PI and GI target lists,
may be found at the FUSE Guest Investigator Program site at
http://fusegi.pha.jhu.edu.
Although FUSE data is maintained and archived within MAST, most of the
documentation available from the MAST FUSE page is obtained from the
Johns Hopkins FUSE website.
