A one-meter aperture wide-field camera for the Japanese exposure module on space station
- University of California and Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
- Riken Laboratory, 2-6 Hirozawa, Wako City, 351-01 (Japan)
- University of Tokyo, Osawa 2-21-1, Mitaka, Tokyo 181 (Japan)
- Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, Maryland, 21218 (United States)
- Observatorire de Paris---Section de Meudon, University of Paris (France)
- University of Alabama at Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama, 35899 (United States)
- Department of Physics, University of Stockholm, S-11346, Stockhom (Sweden)
- Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 73019-0225 (United States)
- Pulkovo Observatory, Central Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg (Russia)
- Department of Physics, Technical University of Munich, Garching, (Germany); !DOCTYPE SPIN PUBLIC ``-//AIP//DTD aipspin//EN``
We propose to construct and deploy a one-meter, wide field camera for cosmological, science education and other studies and site it on the International Space Station{close_quote}s Japanese Exposure Module (JEM). The SHOUT Telescope (for S{underscore}pace H{underscore}ands-O{underscore}n U{underscore}niverse T{underscore}elescope) is an inexpensive powerful instrument that will yield some of the most significant measurements in astrophysics. The detector would consist of a 15,000{times}15,000 pixel{sup 2} imaging CCD made of high-resistivity silicon, with quantum efficiency of approximately 50{percent} at one micron. In addition, a single channel spectrograph is included for spectroscopy on any interesting photometric discoveries. Advances in graphite carbon mirrors and telescope construction enable an instrument weight of about 100{endash}200 kg. Such a low-weight instrument could be placed on a mass-limited shuttle launch. This system would have a performance for finding point objects in a random field {approximately}100x of that of the Advanced Camera system on HST at a wavelength of one micron. It would fill an under-exploited niche of the electromagnetic and time-variability spectrum and enable a broad range of synoptic measurements at high redshifts. In addition, cosmological effects measured in supernovae, quasars, galaxies, are large at z{approximately}1 to 2, ideally suited for I band studies{emdash}a region of great sensitivity for this instrument. The scientific program would include the discovery and follow-up of approximately 1000 Type 1a supernovae, discovery and studies of quasar lenses, a determination of this distribution and nature of micro-lensing sources, a deep field covering many square degrees in several colors to 27th magnitude and 0.2 arc-second resolution. A unique feature of this mission is that a strong collaboration between scientists, teachers, and students will be embedded in the operations of this system. Students will be able to collaborate on all of the science undertaken. {copyright} {ital 1999 American Institute of Physics.}
- OSTI ID:
- 348245
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-990103-; ISSN 0094-243X; TRN: 9911M0013
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 458, Issue 1; Conference: 1999 space technology and applications international forum, Albuquerque, NM (United States), 31 Jan - 4 Feb 1999; Other Information: PBD: Jan 1999
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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