The Ultraviolet Type Ia Supernova CubeSat (UVIa): Science Motivation & Mission Concept
Abstrak
The Ultraviolet (UV) Type Ia Supernova Mission (UVIa) is a CubeSat/SmallSat concept that stands to test critical space-borne UV technology for future missions like the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) while elucidating long-standing questions about the explosion mechanisms of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). UVIa will observe whether any SNe Ia emit excess UV light shortly after explosion to test progenitor/explosion models and provide follow-up over many days to characterize their UV and optical flux variations over time, assembling a comprehensive multi-band UV and optical low-redshift anchor sample for upcoming high-redshift SNe Ia surveys (e.g., Euclid, Vera Rubin Observatory, Nancy Roman Space Telescope). UVIa's mission profile requires it to perform rapid and frequent visits to newly discovered SNe Ia, simultaneously observing each SNe Ia in two UV bands (FUV: 1500-1800A and NUV: 1800-2400A) and one optical band (u-band: 3000-4200A). In this study, we describe the UVIa mission concept science motivation and basic mission design. The UVIa mission concept has been submitted to the CubeSats category of the NASA ROSES Astrophysics Research & Analysis (APRA) program (\$10M cost cap) and NASA Astrophysics Pioneers program (\$20M cost cap).
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Keri Hoadley
Curtis McCully
Gillian Kyne
Fernando Cruz Aguirre
Moira Andrews
Christophe Basset
K. Azalee Bostroem
Peter J. Brown
Greyson Davis
Erika T. Hamden
Daniel Harbeck
John Hennessy
Michael Hoenk
Griffin Hosseinzadeh
D. Andrew Howell
April Jewell
Saurabh Jha
Jessica Li
Peter Milne
Leonidas Moustakas
Shouleh Nikzad
Craig Pellegrino
Abigail Polin
David J. Sand
Ken J. Shen
Lisa Storrie-Lombardi
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