Work In Progress at The LUND VUV-FTS

A Fourier Transform Spectrometer specially designed for the UV and VUV regions is being used at the Lund University Atomic Spectroscopy Group. The instrument, manufactured by Chelsea Instruments Ltd., UK, was purchased thanks to a grant from the Swedish Natural Science Research Council. In the grant application, particular emphasis was put on the possibility to produce accurate laboratory data for astrophysical research, and investigations with this purpose have accordingly dominated during the first year. More general atomic spectroscopy and atomic physics work will, however, also be carried out at the instrument, and such projects have already been initiated.