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The Australian space eye: Studying the history of galaxy formation with a CubeSat

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Horton, A J
Spitler, Lee R.
Mathers, Naomi
Petkovic, Michael
Griffin, Douglas
Barraclough, Simon
Dimitrijevic, Igor
Benson, Craig R.
Lambert, Andrew John
Previte, Anthony

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SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

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The Australian Space Eye is a proposed astronomical telescope based on a 6U CubeSat platform. The Space Eye will exploit the low level of systematic errors achievable with a small space based telescope to enable high accuracy measurements of the optical extragalactic background light and low surface brightness emission around nearby galaxies. This project is also a demonstrator for several technologies with general applicability to astronomical observations from nanosatellites. Space Eye is based around a 90 mm aperture clear aperture all refractive telescope for broadband wide field imaging in the i' and z' bands.

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Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

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