Thursday 1 July at 2:30pm in the Gemini HQ Seminar Room

Martin Cohen - UC Berkeley

"The MSX satellite: from Far-UV to Mid-IR"

ABSTRACT: "The MSX satellite (Midcourse Space Experiment) covered the wavelength range from 1300A to 26 microns. Over 2 TB of raw astronomical data were obtained. I plan to present an overview of the instruments that are relevant to astronomy, the types of data these instruments collected, and the astronomical motivations for collecting these data. Data products from MSX's infrared sensors will eventually become available to the astronomy community so this talk provides an opportunity to plan for the kinds of scientific investigation that will be enabled by the MSX archives."