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

Anthony Horton, Lee Spitler, Naomi Mathers, Michael Pektovic, Douglas Griffin, Simon Barraclough, Craig Benson, Igor Dimitrijevic, Andrew Lambert, Anthony Previte, John Bowen, Solomon Westerman, Jordi Puig-Suari, Sam Reisenfeld, Jon Lawrence, Ross Zhelem, Matthew Colless, Russell Boyce
(Submitted on 22 Jun 2016)

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.

Comments: 19 pages, 14 figures, submitted for publication as Proc. SPIE 9904, 9904-56 (SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation 2016)
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Cite as: arXiv:1606.06960 [astro-ph.IM] (or arXiv:1606.06960v1 [astro-ph.IM] for this version)
Submission history
From: Anthony Horton
[v1] Wed, 22 Jun 2016 14:23:59 GMT (4069kb,D)
http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06960