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Hauptverfasser: Kim, Daewook, Kim, Youngsik, Choi, Heejoo, Esparza, Marcos, Wu, Oliver, Takashima, Yuzuru, Palisoc, Art, Walker, Christopher
Format: Preprint
Veröffentlicht: 2024
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19584
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author Kim, Daewook
Kim, Youngsik
Choi, Heejoo
Esparza, Marcos
Wu, Oliver
Takashima, Yuzuru
Palisoc, Art
Walker, Christopher
author_facet Kim, Daewook
Kim, Youngsik
Choi, Heejoo
Esparza, Marcos
Wu, Oliver
Takashima, Yuzuru
Palisoc, Art
Walker, Christopher
contents The Single Aperture Large Telescope for Universe Studies (SALTUS) is a deployable space telescope designed to provide the astrophysics community with an extremely large far-infrared (far-IR) space observatory to explore our cosmic origins. The SALTUS observatory can observe thousands of faint astrophysical targets, including the first galaxies, protoplanetary disks in various evolutionary states, and a wide variety of solar system objects. The SALTUS design architecture utilizes radiatively cooled, 14-m diameter unobscured aperture, and cryogenic instruments to enable both high spectral and spatial resolution at unprecedented sensitivity over a wavelength range largely unavailable to any existing ground or space observatories. The unique SALTUS optical design, utilizing a large inflatable off-axis primary mirror, provides superb sensitivity, angular resolution, and imaging performance at far-IR wavelengths over a wide +/-0.02 x 0.02 degree Field of View. SALTUS design, with its highly compact form factor, allows it to be readily stowed in available launch fairings and subsequently deployed in orbit.
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spellingShingle 14-m aperture deployable off-axis far-IR space telescope design for SALTUS observatory
Kim, Daewook
Kim, Youngsik
Choi, Heejoo
Esparza, Marcos
Wu, Oliver
Takashima, Yuzuru
Palisoc, Art
Walker, Christopher
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
The Single Aperture Large Telescope for Universe Studies (SALTUS) is a deployable space telescope designed to provide the astrophysics community with an extremely large far-infrared (far-IR) space observatory to explore our cosmic origins. The SALTUS observatory can observe thousands of faint astrophysical targets, including the first galaxies, protoplanetary disks in various evolutionary states, and a wide variety of solar system objects. The SALTUS design architecture utilizes radiatively cooled, 14-m diameter unobscured aperture, and cryogenic instruments to enable both high spectral and spatial resolution at unprecedented sensitivity over a wavelength range largely unavailable to any existing ground or space observatories. The unique SALTUS optical design, utilizing a large inflatable off-axis primary mirror, provides superb sensitivity, angular resolution, and imaging performance at far-IR wavelengths over a wide +/-0.02 x 0.02 degree Field of View. SALTUS design, with its highly compact form factor, allows it to be readily stowed in available launch fairings and subsequently deployed in orbit.
title 14-m aperture deployable off-axis far-IR space telescope design for SALTUS observatory
topic Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19584