Observing modes of the SPRITE 12U CubeSat: a probe of star formation feedback with far-UV imaging spectroscopy

Donal O'Sullivan; Brian Fleming; Briana Indahl; Dmitry Vorobiev; Maitland Bowen; Kevin France; Sebastian Escobar; Yi Hang Valerie Wong; Elena Carlson; Sreejith Aickara Gopinathan; Sanchayeeta Borthakur; Javier Del Hoyo; Adriana Diaz; John Hennessy; Anne Jaskot; Adam Magruder; Adrian Martin; Stephan McCandliss; John O'Meara; Manuel Quijada; Luis Rodríguez-De Marcos; Michael Rutkowski; Ravi Sankrit; Oswald H. Siegmund; Jason Tumlinson; Dana Chafetz; Stefan Ulrich; Beth Cervelli; Jack Williams; Diane Brening; Alex Sico; Michael Kaiser

doi:10.1117/12.3020332

Observing modes of the SPRITE 12U CubeSat: a probe of star formation feedback with far-UV imaging spectroscopy

Donal O'Sullivan, Brian Fleming, Briana Indahl, Dmitry Vorobiev, Maitland Bowen, Kevin France, Sebastian Escobar, Yi Hang Valerie Wong, Elena Carlson, Sreejith Aickara Gopinathan, Sanchayeeta Borthakur, Javier Del Hoyo, Adriana Diaz, John Hennessy, Anne Jaskot, Adam Magruder, Adrian Martin, Stephan McCandliss, John O'Meara, Manuel QuijadaLuis Rodríguez-De Marcos, Michael Rutkowski, Ravi Sankrit, Oswald H. Siegmund, Jason Tumlinson, Dana Chafetz, Stefan Ulrich, Beth Cervelli, Jack Williams, Diane Brening, Alex Sico, Michael Kaiser

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SPRITE (Supernova Remnants and Proxies for Reionization Testbed Experiment) is a 12U CubeSat mission funded by NASA and led by the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The payload will house the first sub-arcminute resolution Far-Ultraviolet (FUV) long-slit spectrograph with access to the Lyman UV (912 − 1216 Å), enabled by new enhanced lithium fluoride coatings and an ultra-low-noise photon-counting microchannel plate (MCP) detector. The scientific mission has two main components: constraining the escape fraction of ionizing Lyman-Continuum (LyC) radiation from low-redshift galaxies (0.14 ≤ z ≤ 0.4) and measuring feedback from nearby star forming regions and supernova remnants. Enabling the scientific mission are two distinct observing modes. For the faintest sources, we will operate the MCP detector in photon-counting mode. For brighter sources, we will operate the MCP in an accumulation/integration mode. For extended sources we will collate multiple pointings of the long slit, stepping across the field of view in a 'push broom' mapping to create 3D spectroscopic cubes. SPRITE will also take weekly calibration data to characterize the degradation of the coatings and detector. We present these observing modes along with the data acquisition and processing pipeline required to enable scientific analysis on the ground.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024
Subtitle of host publication	Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
Editors	Jan-Willem A. den Herder, Shouleh Nikzad, Kazuhiro Nakazawa
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510675094
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020332
State	Published - 2024
Event	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray - Yokohama, Japan Duration: Jun 16 2024 → Jun 21 2024

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	13093
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Conference	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Yokohama
Period	6/16/24 → 6/21/24

Keywords

Galaxies
Spectroscopy
SPRITE
UV

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Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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O'Sullivan, D., Fleming, B., Indahl, B., Vorobiev, D., Bowen, M., France, K., Escobar, S., Wong, Y. H. V., Carlson, E., Gopinathan, S. A., Borthakur, S., Del Hoyo, J., Diaz, A., Hennessy, J., Jaskot, A., Magruder, A., Martin, A., McCandliss, S., O'Meara, J., ... Kaiser, M. (2024). Observing modes of the SPRITE 12U CubeSat: a probe of star formation feedback with far-UV imaging spectroscopy. In J.-W. A. den Herder, S. Nikzad, & K. Nakazawa (Eds.), Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray Article 1309332 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 13093). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020332

Observing modes of the SPRITE 12U CubeSat: a probe of star formation feedback with far-UV imaging spectroscopy. / O'Sullivan, Donal; Fleming, Brian; Indahl, Briana et al.
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. ed. / Jan-Willem A. den Herder; Shouleh Nikzad; Kazuhiro Nakazawa. SPIE, 2024. 1309332 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 13093).

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

O'Sullivan, D, Fleming, B, Indahl, B, Vorobiev, D, Bowen, M, France, K, Escobar, S, Wong, YHV, Carlson, E, Gopinathan, SA, Borthakur, S, Del Hoyo, J, Diaz, A, Hennessy, J, Jaskot, A, Magruder, A, Martin, A, McCandliss, S, O'Meara, J, Quijada, M, Rodríguez-De Marcos, L, Rutkowski, M, Sankrit, R, Siegmund, OH, Tumlinson, J, Chafetz, D, Ulrich, S, Cervelli, B, Williams, J, Brening, D, Sico, A & Kaiser, M 2024, Observing modes of the SPRITE 12U CubeSat: a probe of star formation feedback with far-UV imaging spectroscopy. in J-WA den Herder, S Nikzad & K Nakazawa (eds), Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray., 1309332, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 13093, SPIE, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, Yokohama, Japan, 6/16/24. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020332

O'Sullivan D, Fleming B, Indahl B, Vorobiev D, Bowen M, France K et al. Observing modes of the SPRITE 12U CubeSat: a probe of star formation feedback with far-UV imaging spectroscopy. In den Herder JWA, Nikzad S, Nakazawa K, editors, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. SPIE. 2024. 1309332. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering). doi: 10.1117/12.3020332

O'Sullivan, Donal ; Fleming, Brian ; Indahl, Briana et al. / Observing modes of the SPRITE 12U CubeSat : a probe of star formation feedback with far-UV imaging spectroscopy. Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. editor / Jan-Willem A. den Herder ; Shouleh Nikzad ; Kazuhiro Nakazawa. SPIE, 2024. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering).

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