Monitoring the high-energy radiation environment of exoplanets around low-mass stars with SPARCS (Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat)

Paul Scowen; Evgenya Shkolnik; David Ardila; Travis Berman; Matthew Beasley; Judd Bowman; Michael Fitzgerald; Varoujan Gorjian; Daniel Jacobs; April Jewell; Joe Llama; Victoria Meadows; Shouleh Nikzad; Constance Spittler; Mark Swain; Robert Zellem

doi:10.1117/12.2315543

Monitoring the high-energy radiation environment of exoplanets around low-mass stars with SPARCS (Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat)

Paul Scowen, Evgenya Shkolnik, David Ardila, Travis Berman, Matthew Beasley, Judd Bowman, Michael Fitzgerald, Varoujan Gorjian, Daniel Jacobs, April Jewell, Joe Llama, Victoria Meadows, Shouleh Nikzad, Constance Spittler, Mark Swain, Robert Zellem

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Abstract

Roughly 40 billion M dwarfs in our galaxy host at least one small planet in the habitable zone (HZ). The stellar ultraviolet (UV) radiation from M dwarfs is strong and highly variable, and impacts planetary atmospheric loss, composition and habitability. These effects are amplified by the extreme proximity of their HZs (0.1-0.4 AU). Knowing the UV environments of M dwarf planets will be crucial to understanding their atmospheric composition and a key parameter in discriminating between biological and abiotic sources for observed biosignatures. The Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS) will be a 6U CubeSat devoted to photometric monitoring of M stars in the far-UV and near-UV, measuring the time-dependent spectral slope, intensity and evolution of low-mass star high-energy radiation.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018
Subtitle of host publication	Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
Editors	Shouleh Nikzad, Jan-Willem A. Den Herder, Kazuhiro Nakazawa
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Print)	9781510619517
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2315543
State	Published - 2018
Event	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray - Austin, United States Duration: Jun 10 2018 → Jun 15 2018

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	10699
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

Other

Other	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
Country/Territory	United States
City	Austin
Period	6/10/18 → 6/15/18

Keywords

Cubesat
Exoplanet
Habitability
Imaging
Low Mass Stars
Photometry
Radiation Environment
Ultraviolet

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Scowen, P., Shkolnik, E., Ardila, D., Berman, T., Beasley, M., Bowman, J., Fitzgerald, M., Gorjian, V., Jacobs, D., Jewell, A., Llama, J., Meadows, V., Nikzad, S., Spittler, C., Swain, M., & Zellem, R. (2018). Monitoring the high-energy radiation environment of exoplanets around low-mass stars with SPARCS (Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat). In S. Nikzad, J.-W. A. Den Herder, & K. Nakazawa (Eds.), Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray Article 106990F (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 10699). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2315543

Monitoring the high-energy radiation environment of exoplanets around low-mass stars with SPARCS (Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat). / Scowen, Paul; Shkolnik, Evgenya; Ardila, David et al.
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. ed. / Shouleh Nikzad; Jan-Willem A. Den Herder; Kazuhiro Nakazawa. SPIE, 2018. 106990F (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 10699).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Scowen, P, Shkolnik, E, Ardila, D, Berman, T, Beasley, M, Bowman, J, Fitzgerald, M, Gorjian, V, Jacobs, D, Jewell, A, Llama, J, Meadows, V, Nikzad, S, Spittler, C, Swain, M & Zellem, R 2018, Monitoring the high-energy radiation environment of exoplanets around low-mass stars with SPARCS (Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat). in S Nikzad, J-WA Den Herder & K Nakazawa (eds), Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray., 106990F, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 10699, SPIE, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, Austin, United States, 6/10/18. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2315543

Scowen P, Shkolnik E, Ardila D, Berman T, Beasley M, Bowman J et al. Monitoring the high-energy radiation environment of exoplanets around low-mass stars with SPARCS (Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat). In Nikzad S, Den Herder JWA, Nakazawa K, editors, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. SPIE. 2018. 106990F. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering). doi: 10.1117/12.2315543

Scowen, Paul ; Shkolnik, Evgenya ; Ardila, David et al. / Monitoring the high-energy radiation environment of exoplanets around low-mass stars with SPARCS (Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat). Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. editor / Shouleh Nikzad ; Jan-Willem A. Den Herder ; Kazuhiro Nakazawa. SPIE, 2018. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering).

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