The Australian space eye: Studying the history of galaxy formation with a CubeSat

Anthony Horton*, Lee Spitler, Naomi Mathers, Michael Petkovic, Douglas Griffin, Simon Barraclough, Craig Benson, Igor Dimitrijevic, Andrew Lambert, Anthony Previte, John Bowen, Solomon Westerman, Jordi Puig-Suari, Sam Reisenfeld, Jon Lawrence, Ross Zhelem, Matthew Colless, Russell Boyce

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    Abstract

    The Australian Space Eye is a proposed astronomical telescope based on a 6U CubeSat platform. The Space Eye will exploit the low level of systematic errors achievable with a small space based telescope to enable high accuracy measurements of the optical extragalactic background light and low surface brightness emission around nearby galaxies. This project is also a demonstrator for several technologies with general applicability to astronomical observations from nanosatellites. Space Eye is based around a 90 mm aperture clear aperture all refractive telescope for broadband wide field imaging in the i' and z' bands.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationSpace Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016
    Subtitle of host publicationOptical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave
    EditorsHoward A. MacEwen, Makenzie Lystrup, Giovanni G. Fazio
    PublisherSPIE
    ISBN (Electronic)9781510601871
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2016
    EventSpace Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave - Edinburgh, United Kingdom
    Duration: 26 Jun 20161 Jul 2016

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
    Volume9904
    ISSN (Print)0277-786X
    ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

    Conference

    ConferenceSpace Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    CityEdinburgh
    Period26/06/161/07/16

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