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STARI: STarlight Acquisition and Reflection toward Interferometry

Year: 2024

Type: preprint

Abstract: We present the concept for STARI: STarlight Acquisition and Reflection toward Interferometry. If launched, STARI will be the first mission to control a 3-D CubeSat formation to the few mm-level, reflect starlight over 10s to 100s of meters from one spacecraft to another, control tip-tilt with sub-arcsecond stability, and validate end-to-end performance by injecting light into a single-mode fiber. While STARI is not an interferometer, the mission will advance the Technology Readiness Levels of the essential subsystems needed for a space interferometer in the near future.

Source: arXiv (Cornell University)

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2408.03925

Authors: Monnier, John D., Jain, Prachet, Kalluri, Shashank, Cutler, James, D'Amico, Simone, Lightsey, Glenn, Pogorelyuk, Leonid, Vasisht, Gautam, Cahoy, Kerri, Meyer, Michael

Institutions: University of Michigan, Stanford University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Language: English

Topic: Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing

Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W4403965733

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