5 papers
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Wide Field Instrument: Bright Point Source Saturation Response and Persistence Properties from Thermal-Vacuum Testing
Dana R. Louie, Robert F. Wilson, Thomas Barclay +19
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Wide Field Instrument (WFI) will observe hundreds of thousands of bright stars across its Core Community Surveys, particularly in the dense…
NASA's Pandora SmallSat Mission: Simulating the Impact of Stellar Photospheric Heterogeneity and Its Correction
Benjamin V. Rackham, Aishwarya R. Iyer, Dániel Apai +28
Stellar photospheric heterogeneity is a dominant astrophysical systematic impacting exoplanet transmission spectroscopy. NASA's Pandora SmallSat Mission is designed to address this…
Simple Improved Reference Subtraction for H4RG, H2RG, and H1RG Near-infrared Array Detectors
Bernard J. Rauscher, Dale J. Fixsen, Gregory Mosby
Teledyne's H4RG, H2RG, and H1RG near-infrared array detectors provide reference pixels embedded in their data streams. Although they do not respond to light, the reference pixels e…
Illuminating the Physics of Cosmic Origin and Evolution: A UK Space Frontiers 2035 White Paper
Florian Beutler, Eva-Maria Mueller, Seshadri Nadathur +61
Understanding the Universe's origins and evolution remains one of the most fundamental challenges in modern cosmology. This white paper explores three key science priorities in thi…
The Pandora SmallSat: A Low-Cost, High Impact Mission to Study Exoplanets and Their Host Stars
Thomas Barclay, Elisa V. Quintana, Knicole Colón +19
The Pandora SmallSat is a NASA flight project aimed at studying the atmospheres of exoplanets -- planets orbiting stars outside our Solar System. Pandora will provide the first dat…