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The Australian Space Eye: studying the history of galaxy formation with a CubeSat

2016; SPIE; Volume: 9904; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1117/12.2232467

1996-756X

A. J. Horton, Lee R. Spitler, Naomi Mathers, Michael Petkovic, Douglas Griffin, Simon Barraclough, Craig R. Benson, Igor Dimitrijevic, Andrew Lambert, Anthony Previte, John Bowen, Solomon Westerman, Jordi Puig‐Suari, Sam Reisenfeld, Jon Lawrence, Ross Zhelem, Matthew Colless, Russell Boyce,

Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation

The Australian Space Eye is a proposed astronomical telescope based on a 6U CubeSat platform. The Space Eye will exploit the low level of systematic errors achievable with a small space based telescope to enable high accuracy measurements of the optical extragalactic background light and low surface brightness emission around nearby galaxies. This project is also a demonstrator for several technologies with general applicability to astronomical observations from nanosatellites. Space Eye is based around a 90 mm aperture clear aperture all refractive telescope for broadband wide field imaging in the i and z bands.