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              ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER OF THE EUVE OBSERVATORY
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Vol. 9, No. 3               02 October 2000                  ISSN 1065-3597
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          (C) 2000, Regents of the University of California
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Notes from the Editor
=====================
by Jennifer Cullison, EUVE Project Specialist

Welcome to the electronic newsletter for NASA's Extreme Ultraviolet
Explorer (EUVE) satellite, compiled and published quarterly by the
Center for EUV Astrophysics (CEA) at the University of California,
Berkeley (UCB). 

The contents of this issue of the EUVE electronic newsletter are as follows:

 1. EUVE Satellite Mission Operations News
    1.1 Operations Highlights
    1.2 Observation Log
 2. EUVE Science News
    2.1 NASA Senior Review Terminates EUVE Mission
    2.2 Science Highlights
    2.3 Recent EUVE Data Releases
    2.4 Recent EUVE Publications
        
To comment on or make suggestions for the EUVE electronic newsletter,
please send e-mail to ceanews@cea.berkeley.edu (Internet).


1 EUVE Satellite Mission Operations News
========================================

1.1 Operations Highlights
-------------------------

EUVE operations highlights for the first two quarters of 2000 are:

September 8, 2000

      o  Senior Review Results Trigger EUVE End-of-Mission Activities 

      o  EUVE FOT Implements Complicated Observation of Comet LINEAR 

      o  Survey Shows High Levels of EUVE GO Satisfaction 

      o  EUVE FOT Hosts Numerous Visitors 

      o  EUVE Supports Successful Tests of TDRS-H SMA Services 

July 7, 2000
 
      o  EUVE Celebrated 8-Year Launch Anniversary 

      o  EUVE Well-Represented at June AAS 

      o  EUVE Team Received Award from NASA Administrator 

      o  FOT Continued Post-Battery-Failure Clean-Up Work 
                      
Details (including general notes and Y2K status) are available at:
http://www.cea.berkeley.edu/~pubinfo/html/EUVE_operations_high_opshigh.html


1.2 Observation Log
-------------------

EUVE observed eight different targets for regular observations over the 
course of the third quarters of 2000 including, in rough chronological 
order, EUVE J0006+29.0, Comet LINEAR, lambda Sco, beta Cet, AR Lac, 
SS Cyg (TOO), LB 9802, and Am Her.  

Details and previous observation information are available at:
http://www.cea.berkeley.edu/~science/data/dynamic/exposures.html or
http://www.cea.berkeley.edu/~science/html/EUVE_call99_euvelog.html

Upcoming observations are available on the short-term schedule at 
http://www.cea.berkeley.edu/~science/html/Observing_sched_shortterm.html.

2. EUVE Science News
====================

2.1 NASA Senior Review Terminates EUVE Mission
----------------------------------------------

In an early August 2000 report, the NASA OSS Senior Review
recommended the termination of EUVE at the end of NASA FY00 (i.e., 30
September 2000).  Subsequently, Dr. Guenter Riegler at NASA
Headquarters (HQ) promised the EUVE Project $300K in closeout funds
that will stretch operations through the end of CY00 and will
accommodate end-of-mission testing.

Though the satellite continues to operate flawlessly and natural
re-entry is current not predicted until February 2002 (mean; +/-
2-sigma in Oct 2001 and Oct 2002, respectively), and with closeout
funding aside, the Senior Review panel's decision was, in fact, to cut
the EUVE mission short by as many as two years.

The EUVE user community and public supporters have responded by
sending letters to NASA officials and congressional leaders urging
them to do what they can to extend the life of the mission.  In their
appeals, supporters have consistently stressed the continued health of
the EUVE satellite and its return of new and exciting scientific
results.

Within two weeks of the Senior Review panel's decision, Dr. Riegler
reported having received ~50 letters, and more have flowed in since.
Select letters are available at

		 http://www.euvexplorer.com/save.html

Thanks to those of you who have already taken part in this effort --
we hope more letters will continue to stream in.

The letter-writing campaign has helped to generate interest from
various media institutions such as NASA Watch, Universe Today and
space.com.  This, in turn, has helped to generate wider public support
for extending the EUVE mission beyond December 2000.  The most recent 
media story on EUVE is at

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/ultraviolet_death_000922.html

In addition, several congressional leaders have shown interest in
EUVE's situation, particularly those who represent California
and who serve on the House Science Subcommittee on Space and
Aeronautics.  For example, Representatives Mark Udall (a member of the
House Science Subcommittee from Colorado) and Barbara Lee (Berkeley's
congressional representative) submitted a "congressional inquiry"
letter to NASA HQ in an effort to better understand how its various
programs are being funded.  The intention of this letter was not to
direct NASA how to spend its money, but to help settle questions of
deficits and shortfalls that may have played a role in the Senior
Review's decision to terminate EUVE.  This letter is available at

	    http://www.euvexplorer.com/EUVE_Letter_dco.pdf

When holding their last meeting on 13 September, Rep. Udall and
other members of the House Science Subcommittee on Space and
Aeronautics called on NASA officials to report on the status of
various programs, and expressed particular interest in EUVE.  A
summary of the NASA report for this meeting is available at

	     http://www.aas.org/policy/NASALifeCycle.htm

On September 13 and 14, EUVE Project Manager Brett Stroozas and
Observatory Director Dr. Roger Malina visited select congressional
leaders' DC offices to discuss continued support for EUVE.  Contacts
in DC were particularly interested in how the termination of EUVE,
falling so close to its end-of-life, is counter to NASA's stated goals
of NASA-University collaboration.  Many were supportive of the idea of
getting all possible science out of EUVE after the investment the
project has already received.

At present, the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics is
awaiting delivery of NASA reports detailing appropriations of funding
toward its various programs.  At the same time, the University of
California is working with the office of Senator Diane Feinstein to
draft a funding proposal via the VA-HUD-IA bill, the goal of which
would focus on the NASA-University partnership, and which could
benefit UCB (EUVE), Harvard (SWAS), and other universities.  The EUVE
Project has made it clear to Senator Feinstein and the University of
California that it is not interested in an EUVE-specific earmark as
this would be counter to the decision of the NASA Senior Review.  We
are, however, interested in increasing the total FY01 research funding
for NASA missions in general, with the hope that some of the
additional funds might find their way to support EUVE.

Provided the national budget is passed in a timely manner, the EUVE
Project is expecting to know its ultimate fate within the next few
weeks. 

2.2 Science Highlights
----------------------

EUVE science highlights for the third quarter of 1999 are:

September 8, 2000

      o  EUVE and Chandra Team Discover Charge Exchange Emission from 
         Comet LINEAR

      o  First with EUVE: Observation of Sharp Turn-on in Flux between Her 
         X-1 Short High and Low States

      o  EUVE Catches OY Car in Superoutburst

      o  EUVE Results from XTE J1118+480
         
Details and previous months' highlights are available at:
http://www.cea.berkeley.edu/~science/html/Resources_high.html

2.3 Recent EUVE Data Releases
-----------------------------

Following is a list of EUVE data sets released over the third quarter of 
2000.  Where multiple datasets for the same target are released, only one
listing is shown here with the last observation date and total ksecs.

For full releases prior to this see
http://www.cea.berkeley.edu/~science/html/Archive_pointed_newrelease.html

You may search for and download data sets from 
http://www.cea.berkeley.edu/~science/html/Archive_pointed_order.html

September 2000

Object Name     Obs Date       RA (J2000)  Dec (J2000)   ks  Observer   
-----------     --------       ----------  -----------  ---  --------
ACO 0950        Dec 27 1999    10 14 21.12 +49 41 16.80   4  C.S. BOWYER 
ACO 1366        Dec 27 1999    11 45 24.48 +67 17 24.00  51  C.S. BOWYER
II PEG          Nov 1 1999     23 55 03.75 +28 38 01.19 152  D. BUZASI 
TON S 180       Nov 12 1999M   00 57 19.00 -22 22 59.00 477  R. EDELSON


August 2000

Object Name     Obs Date       RA (J2000)  Dec (J2000)   ks  Observer 
-----------     --------       ----------  -----------  ---  --------
2EUVE J0443-037 Dec 19 1999    04 43 07.10 -03 46 49.00   63  J. DUPUIS
II PEG          Oct 21 1999    23 55 03.75 +28 38 01.19  175  D. BUZASI
TON S 180       Dec 14 1999    00 57 19.00 -22 22 59.00   52  R. EDELSON


July 2000

Object Name     Obs Date       RA (J2000)  Dec (J2000)   ks  Observer
-----------     --------       ----------  -----------  ---  --------
3C 345          Jun 24 1999    16 43 38.40 +39 52 08.40 172  C.S. BOWYER
HD 223816       Sep 22 1999    23 53 04.20 -70 23 28.01 128  M. BURLEIGH

				
2.4 Recent EUVE Publications
----------------------------

The full EUVE bibliography (1978 to present) is available at:
http://www.cea.berkeley.edu/~science/html/Resources_pubs_euvebib.html

Following is citation and abstract information for all known publications 
released over the third quarter (July through September) of 2000. Abstracts 
of these papers are available at the NASA Astrophysics Data System:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html.

Late-Type Stars
---------------
Extreme-Ultraviolet Flare Activity in Late-Type Stars, M. Audard, M. Guedel, 
J.J. Drake, V.L. Kashyap, ApJ, 541, p. 396, September 2000.

High-Resolution X-Ray Spectra of Capella: Initial Results from the Chandra 
High-Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer, C.R. Canizares, D.P. 
Huenemoerder, D.S. Davis, D. Dewey, K.A. Flanagan, J. Houck, T.H. Markert, 
H.L. Marshall, M.L. Schattenburg, N.S. Schulz, M. Wise, J.J. Drake, and 
N.S. Brickhouse, ApJ Letters, 539, p. 41, August 2000.

White Dwarfs
------------
The Discovery of Photospheric Phosphorus and Iron in the Far Ultraviolet 
Spectroscopic Explorer Spectrum of the Hot DA White Dwarf GD 394, P. Chayer, 
J.W. Kruk, T.B. Ake, A.K. Dupree, R.F. Malina, O.H.W. Siegmund, G. Sonneborn,
and R.G. Ohl, ApJ Letters, 538, p. 91, July 2000.

Adding More Mysteries to the DA White Dwarf GD 394, J. Dupuis, P. Chayer, S.
Vennes, D.J. Christian, and J.W. Kruk, ApJ, 537, p. 977, July 2000.

Spectroscopic Confirmation of a White Dwarf Companion to the B Star 16 Dra, 
M.R. Burleigh and M.A. Barstow, A&A, 359, p. 977, July 2000.

Early-Type Stars
----------------
What is the Nature of the Spectroscopic Companion of the Early B Star
lambda Scorpii? T.W. Berghöfer, S. Vennes, and J. Dupuis, ApJ, 538, p. 854, 
August 2000.

Neutron Stars and LMXBs
-----------------------
An EUVE observation of the Globular Cluster NGC 1851: the Second EUV
Detection of a Low Mass X-ray Binary? P.J. Callanan, J.J. Drake, A. 
Fruscione, and D. Christian, A&A, 360, p. 559, August 2000.

Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer Observations of PSR B0656+14,  J. Edelstein, K. 
Seon, A. Golden, and K. Min, ApJ, 539, p. 902, August 2000.

The X-Ray Transient XTE J1118+480: Multiwavelength Observations of a
Low-State Minioutburst, R.I. Hynes, C.W. Mauche, C.A. Haswell, C.R. Shrader, 
W. Cui, W, and S. Chaty, ApJ Letters, 539, p. 37, August 2000. 

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  The EUVE Electronic Newsletter is issued by the Center for Extreme
  Ultraviolet Astrophysics, University of California, Berkeley, CA
  94720, USA.  The opinions expressed are those of the authors.  EUVE
  Principal Investigator and Newsletter Publisher: Dr. Roger F.
  Malina.  EUVE Newsletter Editor: Jennifer Cullison.  Funded by NASA/UCB 
  Cooperative Agreement NCC5-138.  Send newsletter correspondence to 
  ceanews@cea.berkeley.edu.

  The EUVE project is managed for NASA by UCB: Dr. Roger F. Malina,
  EUVE Observatory Director; Drs. Brian Flynn and Jean Dupuis, EUVE 
  Observatory Deputy Directors; Mr. Brett Stroozas, EUVE Project 
  Manager; Mr. Rob Nevitt, EUVE Operations Manager.  NASA HQ: Dr. 
  Guenter Riegler, Program Manager. EUVE Science Advisory Board: Dr. 
  Steve Howell (Chair).

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