The CUBES science case
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Article Title | The CUBES science case |
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ERA Journal ID | 34292 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Evans, Chris, Cristiani, Stefano, Opitom, Cyrielle, Cescutti, Gabriele, D’Odorico, Valentina, Alcalá, Juan Manuel, Alencar, Silvia H. P., Balashev, Sergei, Barbuy, Beatriz, Bastian, Nate, Battino, Umberto, Cambianica, Pamela, Carini, Roberta, Carter, Brad, Cassisi, Santi, Castilho, Bruno Vaz, Christlieb, Norbert, Cooke, Ryan, Covino, Stefano, Cremonese, Gabriele, Cunha, Katia, da Silva, André R., D’Elia, Valerio, De Cia, Annalisa, de Silva, Gayandhi, Diaz, Marcos, Di Marcantonio, Paolo, Ernandes, Heitor, Fitzsimmons, Alan, Franchini, Mariagrazia, Gänsicke, Boris T., Genoni, Matteo, Giribaldi, Riano E., Grazian, Andrea, Hansen, Camilla Juul, La Forgia, Fiorangela, Lazzarin, Monica, Marcolino, Wagner, Marconi, Marcella, Migliorini, Alessandra, Noterdaeme, Pasquier, Pereira, Claudio, Pilecki, Bogumil, Quirrenbach, Andreas, Randich, Sofia, Rossi, Silvia, Smiljanic, Rodolfo, Snodgrass, Colin, Stürmer, Julian, Trost, Andrea, Vanzella, Eros, Ventura, Paolo, Wright, Duncan and Zafar, Tayyaba |
Journal Title | Experimental Astronomy: an international journal on astronomical instrumentation and data analysis |
Journal Citation | 55 (1), pp. 1 - 57 |
Number of Pages | 57 |
Year | 2023 |
Place of Publication | Netherlands |
ISSN | 0922-6435 |
1572-9508 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-022-09864-7 |
Web Address (URL) | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-022-09864-7 |
Abstract | We introduce the scientific motivations for the development of the Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph (CUBES) that is now in construction for the Very Large Telescope. The assembled cases span a broad range of contemporary topics across Solar System, Galactic and extragalactic astronomy, where observations are limited by the performance of current ground-based spectrographs shortwards of 400 nm. A brief background to each case is presented and specific technical requirements on the instrument design that flow-down from each case are identified. These were used as inputs to the CUBES design, that will provide a factor of ten gain in efficiency for astronomical spectroscopy over 300-405 nm, at resolving powers of R∼ 24,000 and ∼ 7,000. We include performance estimates that demonstrate the ability of CUBES to observe sources that are up to three magnitudes fainter than currently possible at ground-ultraviolet wavelengths, and we place its predicted performance in the context of existing facillities. |
Keywords | Instrumentation: spectrographs; Comets; Stars; Galaxies; Transients |
Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 510199. Astronomical sciences not elsewhere classified |
510999. Space sciences not elsewhere classified | |
Byline Affiliations | Space Telescope Science Institute, United States |
Royal Observatory Edinburgh, United Kingdom | |
INAF - Trieste Astronomical Observatory, Italy | |
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom | |
University of Trieste, Italy | |
Capodimonte Astronomical Observatory, Italy | |
Federal University of Minas Gerais (UMG), Brazil | |
Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia | |
National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia | |
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil | |
Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Spain | |
Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science, Spain | |
University of Hull, United Kingdom | |
INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Padova, Italy | |
INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Rome, Italy | |
Centre for Astrophysics | |
INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Abruzzo, Italy | |
University of Pisa, Italy | |
Ministry of Science and Technology (MCTI), Brazil | |
Heidelberg University, Germany | |
Durham University, United Kingdom | |
INAF - Brera Astronomical Observatory, Italy | |
University of Arizona, United States | |
Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland | |
Italian Space Agency, Italy | |
University of Geneva, Switzerland | |
Macquarie University | |
Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom | |
University of Warwick, United Kingdom | |
Goethe University Frankfurt | |
University of Padua, Italy | |
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
INAF - IAPS, Italy | |
French-Chilean Laboratory for Astronomy (FCLA), Chile | |
INAF - Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory, Italy | |
INAF - Astrophysics and Space Science Observatory of Bologna, Italy |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/zq2zv/the-cubes-science-case
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