SISTINE: a pathfinder for FUV imaging spectroscopy on future NASA astrophysics missions

Brian T. Fleming; Kevin France; Nicholas Nell; Nicholas Kruczek; Robert Kane; James Green; Manuel A. Quijada; Javier Del Hoyo; Oswald Siegmund

doi:10.1117/12.2232249

11 July 2016 SISTINE: a pathfinder for FUV imaging spectroscopy on future NASA astrophysics missions

Brian T. Fleming, Kevin France, Nicholas Nell, Nicholas Kruczek, Robert Kane, James Green, Manuel A. Quijada, Javier Del Hoyo, Oswald Siegmund

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Proceedings Volume 9905, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 99050A (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232249
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

The University of Colorado ultraviolet sounding rocket program presents the motivation and design capabilities of the new Suborbital Imaging Spectrograph for Transition Region Irradiance from Nearby Exoplanet host stars (SISTINE). SISTINE is a pathfinder for future UV space instrumentation, incorporating advanced broadband refl ective mirror coatings and large format borosilicate microchannel plate detectors that address technology gaps identified by the NASA Cosmic Origins program. The optical design capitalizes on new capabilities enabled by these technologies to demonstrate optical pathlengths in a sounding rocket envelope that would otherwise require a prohibitive effective area penalty in the 1020 - 1150 Å bandpass. This enables SISTINE to achieve high signal-to-noise observations of emission lines from planet-hosting dwarf stars with moderate spectral resolution (R ~ 10,000) and sub-arcsecond angular imaging. In this proceedings, we present the scientific motivation for a moderate resolution imaging spectrograph, the design of SISTINE, and the enabling technologies that make SISTINE, and future advanced FUV-sensitive instrumentation, possible.

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Brian T. Fleming, Kevin France, Nicholas Nell, Nicholas Kruczek, Robert Kane, James Green, Manuel A. Quijada, Javier Del Hoyo, and Oswald Siegmund "SISTINE: a pathfinder for FUV imaging spectroscopy on future NASA astrophysics missions", Proc. SPIE 9905, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 99050A (11 July 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232249

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