Paper 13093-149
The Lunar Ultraviolet Observatory (OUL): preparatory optical activities and detector
On demand | Presented live 17 June 2024
Abstract
The Lunar Ultraviolet Observatory (OUL) is a small instrument designed to map the Earth exosphere, the magnetosphere and the near-Earth space while orbiting the Moon. It can operate either as a flight-alone cubesat mission or as an instrument. The observatory is a small space telescope to be set in Lunar orbit to produce wide field images (10x10 deg2) in narrow and broad bands in the 115-175 nm spectral range. In this presentation, we will describe the results of the on-going tests of critical optical elements.
Presenter
Univ. Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
Full Professor and Director of the Space Astronomy Research Group in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Vice-president of the Division B: Facilities, Technologies and Data Science of the International Astronomical Union. PI of the OUL project and the ERC Advanced Grant ENIMUS which pave the path to the High Sensitivity UV Spectropolarimeter URIEL.