The Preliminary Mauve Science Programme: Science themes identified for the first year of operations
Abstrak
Mauve is a low-cost small satellite developed and operated by Blue Skies Space Ltd. The payload features a 13 cm telescope connected with a fibre that feeds into a UV-Vis spectrometer. The detector covers the 200-700 nm range in a single shot, obtaining low resolution spectra at R~20-65. Mauve has launched on 28th November 2025, reaching a 510 km Low-Earth Sun-synchronous orbit. The satellite will enable UV and visible observations of a variety of stellar objects in our Galaxy, filling the gaps in the ultraviolet space-based data. The researchers that have already joined the mission have defined the science themes, observational strategy and targets that Mauve will observe in the first year of operations. To date 10 science themes have been developed by the Mauve science collaboration for year 1, with observational strategies that include both long duration monitoring and short cadence snapshots. Here, we describe these themes and the science that Mauve will undertake in its first year of operations.
Topik & Kata Kunci
Penulis (25)
Mauve Science Collaboration
Marcel Agueros
Don Dixon
Chuanfei Dong
Girish M. Duvvuri
Patrick Flanagan
Christopher Johns-Krull
Hongpeng Lu
Hiroyuki Maehara
Kosuke Namekata
Alejandro Nunez
Elena Pancino
Sharmila Rani
Anusha Ravikumar
T. A. A. Sigut
Keivan Stassun
Jamie Stewart
Krisztián Vida
Emma Whelan
Benjamin Wilcock
Sharafina Razin
Arianna Saba
Giovanna Tinetti
Marcell Tessenyi
Jonathan Tennyson
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2025
- Bahasa
- en
- Sumber Database
- arXiv
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- Open Access ✓