UV-cubesat

The ultraviolet cubesat is a feasibility study contributing towards the ultraviolet astronomy research.

This research was part conducted at University College Dublin under the supervision of Dr.Morgan Fraser.

Repository consists of various jupyter notebooks used for the different calcultions of a ultraviolet cubesat during the course of the research.

Jupyter notebook for the sensitivity calculations is in the 'Cubesat Sensitivity.ipynb' file which is built on the open soucre Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) of the CASTOR mission. This code enables to enter customised passband filters, aperture diameter and pixel scale

Structure

1. Telescope sensitivity
2. Telescope optics
3. Telemetry

Timeline

May 2022 - August 2022

Results

Sensitivity plot

Ground tracks

For more information refer - Poster

Resources

GitHub repositories

Please refer to the CASTOR-telescope repository maintained by Isaac Cheng

1. CASTOR-telescope/ETC_notebooks
2. CASTOR-telescope/ETC

CASTOR mission

1. FORECASTOR: an exposure time calculator for the CASTOR space mission simulating UVMOS spectroscopy
2. CASTOR website

Past ultra violet space telescopes

1. GALEX
2. ASTROSAT
3. SWIFT