Provenance

FIMS-SPEAR was the primary payload on STSAT-1, Korea's first astronomy satellite. Known in Korea as the "Far-Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph" (FIMS) and in the U.S. as "Spectroscopy of Plasma Evolution from Astrophysical Radiation" (SPEAR), FIMS-SPEAR was a joint mission between the Korean Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI), the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), and the University of California, Berkeley, with support from NASA and the Korean ministry of science and technology.

"FIMS" and "SPEAR" are different names for the exact same payload (hereafter FIMS-SPEAR), but this manual will also use them as shorthand to refer to the FIMS (KAIST/KASI) and SPEAR (Berkeley) mission teams, who worked semi-independently of each other. Although parts of the pipeline were performed identically by both the FIMS and SPEAR teams, other parts of the data processing and final products differ in substantial ways. MAST provides mission products from both the FIMS team and the SPEAR team. A partial list of mission team members can be found below, with the Principal Investigators listed first under each institute. Additional contributors and science investigators can be found in the ADS libraries curated in References.

The following mission team members worked with MAST to prepare the 2023 public release: Kwang-Il Seon, Eric Korpela, Young-Soo Jo, Martin Sirk, Kyoung-Wook Min, and Jerry Edelstein.  For citation information, see How to Cite.