The Ultraviolet Type Ia Supernova CubeSat (UVIa): Science Motivation & Mission Concept
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| author | Hoadley, Keri McCully, Curtis Kyne, Gillian Aguirre, Fernando Cruz Andrews, Moira Basset, Christophe Bostroem, K. Azalee Brown, Peter J. Davis, Greyson Hamden, Erika T. Harbeck, Daniel Hennessy, John Hoenk, Michael Hosseinzadeh, Griffin Howell, D. Andrew Jewell, April Jha, Saurabh Li, Jessica Milne, Peter Moustakas, Leonidas Nikzad, Shouleh Pellegrino, Craig Polin, Abigail Sand, David J. Shen, Ken J. Storrie-Lombardi, Lisa |
| author_facet | Hoadley, Keri McCully, Curtis Kyne, Gillian Aguirre, Fernando Cruz Andrews, Moira Basset, Christophe Bostroem, K. Azalee Brown, Peter J. Davis, Greyson Hamden, Erika T. Harbeck, Daniel Hennessy, John Hoenk, Michael Hosseinzadeh, Griffin Howell, D. Andrew Jewell, April Jha, Saurabh Li, Jessica Milne, Peter Moustakas, Leonidas Nikzad, Shouleh Pellegrino, Craig Polin, Abigail Sand, David J. Shen, Ken J. Storrie-Lombardi, Lisa |
| contents | The Ultraviolet (UV) Type Ia Supernova Mission (UVIa) is a CubeSat/SmallSat concept that stands to test critical space-borne UV technology for future missions like the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) while elucidating long-standing questions about the explosion mechanisms of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). UVIa will observe whether any SNe Ia emit excess UV light shortly after explosion to test progenitor/explosion models and provide follow-up over many days to characterize their UV and optical flux variations over time, assembling a comprehensive multi-band UV and optical low-redshift anchor sample for upcoming high-redshift SNe Ia surveys (e.g., Euclid, Vera Rubin Observatory, Nancy Roman Space Telescope). UVIa's mission profile requires it to perform rapid and frequent visits to newly discovered SNe Ia, simultaneously observing each SNe Ia in two UV bands (FUV: 1500-1800A and NUV: 1800-2400A) and one optical band (u-band: 3000-4200A). In this study, we describe the UVIa mission concept science motivation and basic mission design. The UVIa mission concept has been submitted to the CubeSats category of the NASA ROSES Astrophysics Research & Analysis (APRA) program (\$10M cost cap) and NASA Astrophysics Pioneers program (\$20M cost cap). |
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| spellingShingle | The Ultraviolet Type Ia Supernova CubeSat (UVIa): Science Motivation & Mission Concept Hoadley, Keri McCully, Curtis Kyne, Gillian Aguirre, Fernando Cruz Andrews, Moira Basset, Christophe Bostroem, K. Azalee Brown, Peter J. Davis, Greyson Hamden, Erika T. Harbeck, Daniel Hennessy, John Hoenk, Michael Hosseinzadeh, Griffin Howell, D. Andrew Jewell, April Jha, Saurabh Li, Jessica Milne, Peter Moustakas, Leonidas Nikzad, Shouleh Pellegrino, Craig Polin, Abigail Sand, David J. Shen, Ken J. Storrie-Lombardi, Lisa Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics The Ultraviolet (UV) Type Ia Supernova Mission (UVIa) is a CubeSat/SmallSat concept that stands to test critical space-borne UV technology for future missions like the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) while elucidating long-standing questions about the explosion mechanisms of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). UVIa will observe whether any SNe Ia emit excess UV light shortly after explosion to test progenitor/explosion models and provide follow-up over many days to characterize their UV and optical flux variations over time, assembling a comprehensive multi-band UV and optical low-redshift anchor sample for upcoming high-redshift SNe Ia surveys (e.g., Euclid, Vera Rubin Observatory, Nancy Roman Space Telescope). UVIa's mission profile requires it to perform rapid and frequent visits to newly discovered SNe Ia, simultaneously observing each SNe Ia in two UV bands (FUV: 1500-1800A and NUV: 1800-2400A) and one optical band (u-band: 3000-4200A). In this study, we describe the UVIa mission concept science motivation and basic mission design. The UVIa mission concept has been submitted to the CubeSats category of the NASA ROSES Astrophysics Research & Analysis (APRA) program (\$10M cost cap) and NASA Astrophysics Pioneers program (\$20M cost cap). |
| title | The Ultraviolet Type Ia Supernova CubeSat (UVIa): Science Motivation & Mission Concept |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.11957 |