MANTIS 16U CubeSat mission: characterizing the high energy stellar radiation environment of exoplanetary systems with simultaneous extreme-UV through visible observations

Briana L. Indahl; Brian Fleming; Kevin France; David Wilson; Juan M. Alcala; Stefano Basso; Francesco Borsa; Amal Chandran; Marta M. Civitani; Vincenzo Cortroneo; Néstor Espinoza; Davide Fedele; Giancarlo Ghirlanda; Fabien Grisé; Eliza Kempton; Tommi T. Koskinen; Nicholas Kruczek; Jake A. McCoy; Randall L. McEntaffer; Yamila Miguel; Nicholas J. Nell; Brunella Nisini; Giovanni Pareschi; Ignazio F. Pillitteri; Peter C. Schneider; Davide Sisana; Stefan Ulrich; Dmitry Vorobiev; Allison Youngblood

doi:10.1117/12.3020386

22 August 2024 MANTIS 16U CubeSat mission: characterizing the high energy stellar radiation environment of exoplanetary systems with simultaneous extreme-UV through visible observations

Briana L. Indahl, Brian Fleming, Kevin France, David Wilson, Juan M. Alcala, Stefano Basso, Francesco Borsa, Amal Chandran, Marta M. Civitani, Vincenzo Cortroneo, Néstor Espinoza, Davide Fedele, Giancarlo Ghirlanda, Fabien Grisé, Eliza Kempton, Tommi T. Koskinen, Nicholas Kruczek, Jake A. McCoy, Randall L. McEntaffer, Yamila Miguel, Nicholas J. Nell, Brunella Nisini, Giovanni Pareschi, Ignazio F. Pillitteri, Peter C. Schneider, Davide Sisana, Stefan Ulrich, Dmitry Vorobiev, Allison Youngblood

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Proceedings Volume 13093, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 130930B (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020386
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2024, Yokohama, Japan

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The MANTIS (Monitoring Activity of Nearby sTars with uv Imaging and Spectroscopy) 16U CubeSat mission, led by the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado Boulder, plans to characterize the high-energy stellar radiation that drives atmospheric photochemistry and escape on extrasolar planets by conducting simultaneous observations of exoplanet host stars at extreme-ultraviolet (100–1200A; EUV), far-ultraviolet (1300–2200A; FUV), near-ultraviolet (2200–3500A; NUV), and visible (3500–10000A; VIS) wavelengths. The science payload's two-telescope design enables simultaneous coverage over the entire UV passband and the first EUV astrophysics capability in over 20 years. An 8.5cm diameter grazing incidence telescope feeds a low-resolution EUV spectrograph while a 14x9cm rectangular Cassegrain telescope feeds a dichroic beamsplitter to divide the light into both an NUV/VIS and FUV channel. The MANTIS design, detector systems, spacecraft bus and mission operations build off of the heritage of the CUTE and SPRITE CubeSats developed by the MANTIS team. This proceeding overviews the design of the MANTIS instrument and general mission concept.

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Briana L. Indahl, Brian Fleming, Kevin France, David Wilson, Juan M. Alcala, Stefano Basso, Francesco Borsa, Amal Chandran, Marta M. Civitani, Vincenzo Cortroneo, Néstor Espinoza, Davide Fedele, Giancarlo Ghirlanda, Fabien Grisé, Eliza Kempton, Tommi T. Koskinen, Nicholas Kruczek, Jake A. McCoy, Randall L. McEntaffer, Yamila Miguel, Nicholas J. Nell, Brunella Nisini, Giovanni Pareschi, Ignazio F. Pillitteri, Peter C. Schneider, Davide Sisana, Stefan Ulrich, Dmitry Vorobiev, and Allison Youngblood "MANTIS 16U CubeSat mission: characterizing the high energy stellar radiation environment of exoplanetary systems with simultaneous extreme-UV through visible observations", Proc. SPIE 13093, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 130930B (22 August 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020386

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