The Imaging and Slitless Spectroscopy Instrument for Surveys (ISSIS): expected radiometric performance, operation modes and data handling

Castro, Ana Inés Gómez de; Perea-Abarca, Belén; Sánchez, Néstor; Santiago, J.; Chirivella, Jóse; Seijas, Juan

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“…the baseline MCP detector is currently under development for the WSO-UV mission 40 and it is based on the heritage of the ISSIS instrument 41 though its QE has been enhanced to reach the sensitivity of the Hamamatsu detectors used in the Lyman Alpha Imaging Camera (LAICA) on board the Japanese micro-spacecraft PROCYON 5 with a rather similar optical configuration. 42 Similar results have also been obtained by SOHO/SWAN.…”

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Earth as an exoplanet mission concept for a lunar orbiting cubesat

Castro

Beitia-Antero

Miravet-Fuster³

et al. 2019

J. Astron. Telesc. Instrum. Syst.

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There is a growing interest in Lunar exploration fed by the perception that the Moon can be made accessible to low-cost missions in the next decade. The on-going projects to set a communications relay in Lunar orbit and a deep space Gateway, as well as the spreading of commercial-of-the shelf (COTS) technology for small space platforms such as the cubesats contribute to this perception. Small, cubesat size satellites orbiting the Moon offer ample opportunities to study the Moon and enjoy an advantage point to monitor the Solar System and the large scale interaction between the Earth and the solar wind. In this article, we describe the technical characteristics of a 12U cubesat to be set in polar Lunar orbit for this purpose and the science behind it. The mission is named EarthASAP (Earth AS An exoPlanet) and was submitted to the Lunar Cubesats for Exploration (LUCE) call in 2016. EarthASAP was designed to monitor hydrated rock reservoirs in the Lunar poles and to study the interaction between the large Earth's exosphere and the solar wind in preparation for future exoplanetary missions. Gateway 2 has open the path to the development of lunar cubesats. This new generation will need to confront important challenges such as the adaptation to interplanetary space or the development of communication strategies based on shared communications relays. Moon's orbit offers ample opportunities to study the Moon and enjoys an advantage point to monitor the the Solar System and the large scale interaction between the Earth and the solar wind. In recognition of this interest, the European Space Agency (ESA) focused the 2016 SysNova call on lunar cubesats (LUCE); ESA's SysNova calls open regularly 3 aiming at getting innovative proposals in space technology. LUCE Sysnova technical challenge was intended to address four different topics: lunar resource prospecting, environment and effects, science from or in the Moon and lunar exploration technology and operations demonstration. The first version of the project we present in this article was submitted to this call, though it was not selected it evolved and matured to address some critical challenges such as the required instrument miniaturization, the propulsion for orbit maintenance or the on-board autonomy assuming sparse communication windows to an international communication relay. The project was named Earth AS An exo-Planet (EarthASAP)as one of its key scientific objectives is using the lunar orbit vantage point to monitor the interaction between the Earth's exosphere and magnetosphere with the solar wind; also in preparation for the coming exoplanetary research missions.In the following sections the scientific objectives (section 2), the mission concept (section 3), the mission and data handling (section 4) are described. The article concludes with a brief summary together with the risk evaluation and the palliative solutions proposed by the team (section 5). 2 exploration.esa.int/moon/59374-overview/ 3 gsp.esa.int/sysnova

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Earth as an exoplanet mission concept for a lunar orbiting cubesat

Castro

Beitia-Antero

Miravet-Fuster³

et al. 2019

J. Astron. Telesc. Instrum. Syst.

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“…Kappelmann et al 2009). The new design characteristics are outlined in this contribution leaving for the dedicated articles in this series, the detailed description (see Panchuk et al 2014 for WUVS andGómez de Castro et al 2014 for ISSIS). …”

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WSO-UV progress and expectations

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Castro

Sachkov

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Astrophys Space Sci

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Instrumentation of the WSO-UV project

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Dedicated to spectroscopic and imaging observations of the ultraviolet sky, the World Space Observatory -Ultraviolet mission is a Russian-Spanish collaboration. The project consists of a 1.7m telescope with instrumentation able to perform: a) high resolution (R ≥50 000) spectroscopy by means of two echellé spectrographs covering the 115-310 nm spectral range; b) long slit (1x75 arcsec) low resolution (R ∼ 1000) spectroscopy with a near-UV channel and a far-UV channel to cover the 115-305 nm spectral range; c) near-UV and a far-UV imaging channels covering the 115-320 nm wavelength range; d) slitless spectroscopy with spectral resolution of about 500 in the full 115-320 nm spectral range.Here we present the WSO-UV focal plane instruments, their status of implementation, and the expected performances.

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The Imaging and Slitless Spectroscopy Instrument for Surveys (ISSIS): expected radiometric performance, operation modes and data handling

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Earth as an exoplanet mission concept for a lunar orbiting cubesat

Earth as an exoplanet mission concept for a lunar orbiting cubesat

WSO-UV progress and expectations

Instrumentation of the WSO-UV project

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