TESERACT: Twin Earth SEnsoR Astrophotonic CubesaT

Tyler deLoughery; Clayton Lauzon; Haydn Sims; Wahab Almuhtadi; Ross Cheriton

TESERACT: Twin Earth SEnsoR Astrophotonic CubesaT

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2024-08-14 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Applied Physics Instrumentation and Detectors

Authors: Tyler deLoughery , Clayton Lauzon , Haydn Sims , Wahab Almuhtadi , Ross Cheriton

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In this paper, we evaluate the viability of CubeSats as an attractive platform for lightweight instrumentation by describing a proof of concept CubeSat that houses an astrophotonic chip for transit spectroscopy-based exoplanet atmosphere gas sensing. The Twin Earth SEnsoR Astrophotonic CubesaT (TESERACT) was designed to house a correlation spectroscopy chip along with an electrical and optical system for operation. We investigate design challenges and considerations in incorporating astrophotonic instrumentation such as component integration, thermal management and optical alignment. This work aims to be a pathfinder for demonstrating that astrophotonic-based CubeSat missions can perform leading edge, targeted science in lower-cost CubeSat platforms.

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space missions and instrumentation space missions and telescopes astronomical instrumentation and telescopes

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@article{arxiv.2408.06454,
  title  = {TESERACT: Twin Earth SEnsoR Astrophotonic CubesaT},
  author = {Tyler deLoughery and Clayton Lauzon and Haydn Sims and Wahab Almuhtadi and Ross Cheriton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.06454},
  year   = {2024}
}

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10 pages, 4 figures, 1 table

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