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ULTRASAT

(Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite)
(future satellite to detect UV transients)

ULTRASAT (for Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite) is a planned space 33-cm Schmidt camera to detect near-UV transients. Aims include supernova discoveries, GW detection counterparts, and tidal disruption events (TDEs). A 3-year operational lifetime is planned, with a 2027 launch. It is to have a 204 square degree FOV, and is expected to detect on the order of a hundred transients per day, with the aim of alerting potential observers within 20 minutes for follow-up.


(spacecraft,telescope,ultraviolet,transients,plan)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ULTRASAT
https://www.weizmann.ac.il/ultrasat/
https://apd440.gsfc.nasa.gov/ultrasat/
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14482
http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~vikram/bne_talks/ofek.pdf
WaveLFreqPhoton
Energy
  
230nm1.4PHz5.4eVbeginULTRASAT
290nm1.1PHz4.3eVendULTRASAT

Referenced by pages:
Schmidt camera
ultraviolet astronomy

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