UVSat: a concept of an ultraviolet/optical photometric satellite
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2017-11-29 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Abstract
Time-series photometry from space in the ultraviolet can be presently done with only a few platforms, none of which is able to provide wide-field long-term high-cadence photometry. We present a concept of UVSat, a twin space telescope which will be capable to perform this kind of photometry, filling an observational niche. The satellite will host two telescopes, one for observations in the ultraviolet, the other for observations in the optical band. We also briefly show what science can be done with UVSat.
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@article{arxiv.1711.10366,
title = {UVSat: a concept of an ultraviolet/optical photometric satellite},
author = {A. Pigulski and A. Baran and M. Bzowski and H. Cugier and B. Czerny and J. Daszynska-Daszkiewicz and W. Dziembowski and G. Handler and Z. Kolaczkowski and M. Krolikowska and J. Krzesinski and G. Maciejewski and G. Michalska and J. Molenda-Zakowicz and P. Moskalik and A. Niedzielski and E. Niemczura and J. Ostrowski and A. Pamyatnykh and M. Ratajczak and S. Rucinski and M. Siwak and R. Smolec and S. Szutowicz and T. Tomov and L. Wyrzykowski and S. Zola and M. Sarna},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.10366},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
6 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the PAS (Proc. of the 2nd BRITE Science conference, Innsbruck)