Prospect for UV observations from the Moon. III. Assembly and ground calibration of Lunar Ultraviolet Cosmic Imager (LUCI)

Joice Mathew; B. G. Nair; Margarita Safonova; S. Sriram; Ajin Prakash; Mayuresh Sarpotdar; S. Ambily; K. Nirmal; A. G. Sreejith; Jayant Murthy; P. U. Kamath; S. Kathiravan; B. R. Prasad; Noah Brosch; Norbert Kappelmann; Nirmal Suraj Gadde; Rahul Narayan

doi:10.1007/s10509-019-3538-8

Prospect for UV observations from the Moon. III. Assembly and ground calibration of Lunar Ultraviolet Cosmic Imager (LUCI)

Joice Mathew^*, B. G. Nair, Margarita Safonova, S. Sriram, Ajin Prakash, Mayuresh Sarpotdar, S. Ambily, K. Nirmal, A. G. Sreejith, Jayant Murthy, P. U. Kamath, S. Kathiravan, B. R. Prasad, Noah Brosch, Norbert Kappelmann, Nirmal Suraj Gadde, Rahul Narayan

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The Lunar Ultraviolet Cosmic Imager (LUCI) is a near-ultraviolet (NUV) telescope with all-spherical mirrors, designed and built to fly as a scientific payload on a lunar mission with Team Indus—the original Indian entry to the Google Lunar X-Prize. Observations from the Moon provide a unique opportunity of a stable platform with an unobstructed view of the space at all wavelengths due to the absence of atmosphere and ionosphere. LUCI is an 80 mm aperture telescope, with a field of view of 27.6 ^′ × 20.4 ^′ and a spatial resolution of 5 ^″ , will scan the sky in the NUV (200–320 nm) domain to look for transient sources. We describe here the assembly, alignment, and calibration of the complete instrument. LUCI is now in storage in a class 1000 clean room and will be delivered to our flight partner in readiness for flight.

Original language	English
Article number	53
Journal	Astrophysics and Space Science
Volume	364
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-019-3538-8
State	Published - 1 Mar 2019

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Funders	Funder number
NASA Office of Space Science	NNX09AF08G
National Aeronautics and Space Administration	NAS5-26555
Space Telescope Science Institute
Department of Science and Technology, Government of Kerala	EMR/2016/001450/PHY

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Assembly and integration
Calibration
Optical payload
Space instrumentation
UV astronomy

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Mathew, J., Nair, B. G., Safonova, M., Sriram, S., Prakash, A., Sarpotdar, M., Ambily, S., Nirmal, K., Sreejith, A. G., Murthy, J., Kamath, P. U., Kathiravan, S., Prasad, B. R., Brosch, N., Kappelmann, N., Gadde, N. S., & Narayan, R. (2019). Prospect for UV observations from the Moon. III. Assembly and ground calibration of Lunar Ultraviolet Cosmic Imager (LUCI). Astrophysics and Space Science, 364(3), Article 53. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-019-3538-8

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