STARI: STarlight Acquisition and Reflection toward Interferometry
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2024-08-08 v1
Abstract
We present the concept for STARI: STarlight Acquisition and Reflection toward Interferometry. If launched, STARI will be the first mission to control a 3-D CubeSat formation to the few mm-level, reflect starlight over 10s to 100s of meters from one spacecraft to another, control tip-tilt with sub-arcsecond stability, and validate end-to-end performance by injecting light into a single-mode fiber. While STARI is not an interferometer, the mission will advance the Technology Readiness Levels of the essential subsystems needed for a space interferometer in the near future.
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@article{arxiv.2408.03925,
title = {STARI: STarlight Acquisition and Reflection toward Interferometry},
author = {John D. Monnier and Prachet Jain and Shashank Kalluri and James Cutler and Simone D'Amico and Glenn Lightsey and Leonid Pogorelyuk and Gautam Vasisht and Kerri Cahoy and Michael Meyer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.03925},
year = {2024}
}
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submitted to SPIE 2024 (Yokohama)