BRITE-Constellation: Nanosatellites for Precision Photometry of Bright Stars

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: BRITE-Constellation: Nanosatellites for Precision Photometry of Bright Stars
المؤلفون: Weiss, W. W., Moffat, A. F. J., Schwarzenberg-Czerny, A., Koudelka, O. F., Grant, C. C., Zee, R. E., Kuschnig, R., Mochnacki, St., Rucinski, S. M., Matthews, J. M., Orleanski, P., Pamyatnykh, A., Pigulski, A., Alves, J., Guedel, M., Handler, G., Wade, G. A., Scholtz, A. L.
المصدر: IAU Symp. 301 Proceedings, 2013
سنة النشر: 2013
المجموعة: Astrophysics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
الوصف: BRITE-Constellation (where BRITE stands for BRIght Target Explorer) is an international nanosatellite mission to monitor photometrically, in two colours, brightness and temperature variations of stars brighter than V = 4. The current mission design consists of three pairs of 7 kg nanosats from Austria, Canada and Poland carrying optical telescopes and CCDs. One instrument in each pair is equipped with a blue filter; the other, a red filter. The first two nanosats are UNIBRITE, designed and built by University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies - Space Flight Laboratory and its twin, BRITE-Austria, built by the Technical University Graz with support of UTIAS-SFL. They were launched on 25 February 2013 by the Indian Space Agency under contract to the Canadian Space Agency into a low-Earth dusk-dawn polar orbit.
Comment: 2 page abstract of a full paper to be submitted
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1017/S1743921313014105
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.5531
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1309.5531
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1017/S1743921313014105