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ULTRASAT: A wide-field time-domain UV space telescope
| العنوان: | ULTRASAT: A wide-field time-domain UV space telescope |
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| المؤلفون: | Shvartzvald, Y., Waxman, E., Gal-Yam, A., Ofek, E. O., Ben-Ami, S., Berge, D., Kowalski, M., Bühler, R., Worm, S., Rhoads, J. E., Arcavi, I., Maoz, D., Polishook, D., Stone, N., Trakhtenbrot, B., Ackermann, M., Aharonson, O., Birnholtz, O., Chelouche, D., Guetta, D., Hallakoun, N., Horesh, A., Kushnir, D., Mazeh, T., Nordin, J., Ofir, A., Ohm, S., Parsons, D., Pe'er, A., Perets, H. B., Perdelwitz, V., Poznanski, D., Sadeh, I., Sagiv, I., Shahaf, S., Soumagnac, M., Tal-Or, L., Van Santen, J., Zackay, B., Guttman, O., Rekhi, P., Townsend, A., Weinstein, A., Wold, I. |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | Astrophysics |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| الوصف: | The Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite (ULTRASAT) is scheduled to be launched to geostationary orbit in 2026. It will carry a telescope with an unprecedentedly large field of view (204 deg$^2$) and NUV (230-290nm) sensitivity (22.5 mag, 5$\sigma$, at 900s). ULTRASAT will conduct the first wide-field survey of transient and variable NUV sources and will revolutionize our ability to study the hot transient universe: It will explore a new parameter space in energy and time-scale (months long light-curves with minutes cadence), with an extra-Galactic volume accessible for the discovery of transient sources that is $>$300 times larger than that of GALEX and comparable to that of LSST. ULTRASAT data will be transmitted to the ground in real-time, and transient alerts will be distributed to the community in $<$15 min, enabling a vigorous ground-based follow-up of ULTRASAT sources. ULTRASAT will also provide an all-sky NUV image to $>$23.5 AB mag, over 10 times deeper than the GALEX map. Two key science goals of ULTRASAT are the study of mergers of binaries involving neutron stars, and supernovae: With a large fraction ($>$50%) of the sky instantaneously accessible, fast (minutes) slewing capability and a field-of-view that covers the error ellipses expected from GW detectors beyond 2025, ULTRASAT will rapidly detect the electromagnetic emission following BNS/NS-BH mergers identified by GW detectors, and will provide continuous NUV light-curves of the events; ULTRASAT will provide early (hour) detection and continuous high (minutes) cadence NUV light curves for hundreds of core-collapse supernovae, including for rarer supernova progenitor types. Comment: 40 pages, 16 figures, 3 tables. Submitted to the AAS journals |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14482 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.2304.14482 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
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