FORECASTOR -- I. Finding Optics Requirements and Exposure times for the Cosmological Advanced Survey Telescope for Optical and UV Research mission
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| author | Cheng, Isaac Woods, Tyrone E. Côté, Patrick Glover, Jennifer Bansal, Dhananjhay Amenouche, Melissa Marshall, Madeline A. Amen, Laurie Hutchings, John Ferrarese, Laura Venn, Kim A. Balogh, Michael Blouin, Simon Cloutier, Ryan Dickson, Nolan Gallagher, Sarah Hellmich, Martin Hénault-Brunet, Vincent Khatu, Viraja Lawlor-Forsyth, Cameron Morgan, Cameron Richer, Harvey Sawicki, Marcin Sorba, Robert |
| author_facet | Cheng, Isaac Woods, Tyrone E. Côté, Patrick Glover, Jennifer Bansal, Dhananjhay Amenouche, Melissa Marshall, Madeline A. Amen, Laurie Hutchings, John Ferrarese, Laura Venn, Kim A. Balogh, Michael Blouin, Simon Cloutier, Ryan Dickson, Nolan Gallagher, Sarah Hellmich, Martin Hénault-Brunet, Vincent Khatu, Viraja Lawlor-Forsyth, Cameron Morgan, Cameron Richer, Harvey Sawicki, Marcin Sorba, Robert |
| contents | The Cosmological Advanced Survey Telescope for Optical and ultraviolet Research (CASTOR) is a proposed Canadian-led 1m-class space telescope that will carry out ultraviolet and blue-optical wide-field imaging, spectroscopy, and photometry. CASTOR will provide an essential bridge in the post-Hubble era, preventing a protracted UV-optical gap in space astronomy and enabling an enormous range of discovery opportunities from the solar system to the nature of the Cosmos, in conjunction with the other great wide-field observatories of the next decade (e.g., Euclid, Roman, Vera Rubin). FORECASTOR (Finding Optics Requirements and Exposure times for CASTOR) will supply a coordinated suite of mission-planning tools that will serve as the one-stop shop for proposal preparation, data reduction, and analysis for the CASTOR mission. We present the first of these tools: a pixel-based, user-friendly, extensible, multi-mission exposure time calculator (ETC) built in Python, including a modern browser-based graphical user interface that updates in real time. We then provide several illustrative examples of FORECASTOR's use that advance the design of planned legacy surveys for the CASTOR mission: a search for the most massive white dwarfs in the Magellanic Clouds; a study of the frequency of flaring activity in M stars, their distribution and impacts on habitability of exoplanets; mapping the proper motions of faint stars in the Milky Way; wide and deep galaxy surveys; and time-domain studies of active galactic nuclei. |
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| spellingShingle | FORECASTOR -- I. Finding Optics Requirements and Exposure times for the Cosmological Advanced Survey Telescope for Optical and UV Research mission Cheng, Isaac Woods, Tyrone E. Côté, Patrick Glover, Jennifer Bansal, Dhananjhay Amenouche, Melissa Marshall, Madeline A. Amen, Laurie Hutchings, John Ferrarese, Laura Venn, Kim A. Balogh, Michael Blouin, Simon Cloutier, Ryan Dickson, Nolan Gallagher, Sarah Hellmich, Martin Hénault-Brunet, Vincent Khatu, Viraja Lawlor-Forsyth, Cameron Morgan, Cameron Richer, Harvey Sawicki, Marcin Sorba, Robert Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies Solar and Stellar Astrophysics The Cosmological Advanced Survey Telescope for Optical and ultraviolet Research (CASTOR) is a proposed Canadian-led 1m-class space telescope that will carry out ultraviolet and blue-optical wide-field imaging, spectroscopy, and photometry. CASTOR will provide an essential bridge in the post-Hubble era, preventing a protracted UV-optical gap in space astronomy and enabling an enormous range of discovery opportunities from the solar system to the nature of the Cosmos, in conjunction with the other great wide-field observatories of the next decade (e.g., Euclid, Roman, Vera Rubin). FORECASTOR (Finding Optics Requirements and Exposure times for CASTOR) will supply a coordinated suite of mission-planning tools that will serve as the one-stop shop for proposal preparation, data reduction, and analysis for the CASTOR mission. We present the first of these tools: a pixel-based, user-friendly, extensible, multi-mission exposure time calculator (ETC) built in Python, including a modern browser-based graphical user interface that updates in real time. We then provide several illustrative examples of FORECASTOR's use that advance the design of planned legacy surveys for the CASTOR mission: a search for the most massive white dwarfs in the Magellanic Clouds; a study of the frequency of flaring activity in M stars, their distribution and impacts on habitability of exoplanets; mapping the proper motions of faint stars in the Milky Way; wide and deep galaxy surveys; and time-domain studies of active galactic nuclei. |
| title | FORECASTOR -- I. Finding Optics Requirements and Exposure times for the Cosmological Advanced Survey Telescope for Optical and UV Research mission |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies Solar and Stellar Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08137 |