6 papers
The Cross-Survey Decade: A Call to Action
Gioia Rau, Robert Benjamin, Federica Bianco +24
By 2027, three flagship wide-field surveys will be operating simultaneously from ground and space, observing overlapping sky and representing more than $6 billion in US and Europea…
Space and Lunar Interferometry: Emerging Concepts and Pathways
Gioia Rau
Space- and lunar-based interferometry are moving from aspiration toward a concrete landscape of mission studies, pathfinders, and staged architectures. This invited review surveys…
LUnar-based Survey for Time-domain Exploration and Research network (LUSTER-net)
T. S. Boyajian, R. A. Street, B. Fleming +7
LUSTER-net is a lunar-surface UVOIR observatory network mission concept for time-domain astrophysics. The concept envisions a scalable array of approximately 6-12 commonly designed…
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Phase I Final Report -- A Lunar Long-Baseline UV/Optical Imaging Interferometer: Artemis-enabled Stellar Imager (AeSI)
Kenneth G. Carpenter, Tabetha Boyajian, Derek Buzasi +24
This report presents the findings of a NIAC Phase I feasibility study for the Artemis-enabled Stellar Imager (AeSI), a proposed high-resolution, UV/Optical interferometer designed…
Artemis-enabled Stellar Imager (AeSI): A Lunar Long-Baseline UV/Optical Imaging Interferometer
Gioia Rau, Kenneth G. Carpenter, Tabetha Boyajian +12
NASA's return to the Moon presents unparalleled opportunities to advance high-impact scientific capabilities. At the cutting edge of these possibilities are extremely high-resoluti…
MoonLITE: a CLPS-delivered NASA Astrophysics Pioneers lunar optical interferometer for sensitive, milliarcsecond observing
Gerard T. van Belle, David Ciardi, Daniel Hillsberry +8
MoonLITE (Lunar InTerferometry Explorer) is an Astrophysics Pioneers proposal to develop, build, fly, and operate the first separated-aperture optical interferometer in space, deli…