BRITE-Constellation: Nanosatellites for Precision Photometry of Bright Stars
| Autor: | Weiss, W. W., Moffat, A. F. J., Schwarzenberg-Czerny, A., Koudelka, O. F., Grant, C. C., Zee, R. E., Kuschnig, R., Mochnacki, St., Rucinski, S. M., Matthews, J. M., Orleanski, P., Pamyatnykh, A., Pigulski, A., Alves, J., Guedel, M., Handler, G., Wade, G. A., Scholtz, A. L. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | IAU Symp. 301 Proceedings, 2013 |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S1743921313014105 |
| Popis: | BRITE-Constellation (where BRITE stands for BRIght Target Explorer) is an international nanosatellite mission to monitor photometrically, in two colours, brightness and temperature variations of stars brighter than V = 4. The current mission design consists of three pairs of 7 kg nanosats from Austria, Canada and Poland carrying optical telescopes and CCDs. One instrument in each pair is equipped with a blue filter; the other, a red filter. The first two nanosats are UNIBRITE, designed and built by University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies - Space Flight Laboratory and its twin, BRITE-Austria, built by the Technical University Graz with support of UTIAS-SFL. They were launched on 25 February 2013 by the Indian Space Agency under contract to the Canadian Space Agency into a low-Earth dusk-dawn polar orbit. Comment: 2 page abstract of a full paper to be submitted |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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