@inproceedings{abfdf736a4994535b9ad90fbae572973,
title = "Photometric calibration in the ultraviolet of the Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS)",
abstract = "The Start-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS) is a NASA-funded mission led by Arizona State University, devoted to characterizing the UV emission of low-mass stars. During its nominal one-year mission, SPARCS will observe close to 20 low-mass stars, with the goal of understanding their short and long-term UV variability. SPARCS will be ready for launch in 2025. SPARCS' payload is a 9-cm telescope paired with two delta-doped charge-coupled devices (CCDs). The data calibration converts the raw instrument counts into an average flux within the two ultraviolet bands (153-171 nm, 258-308 nm). While the system is only weakly sensitive in the infrared, the target stars are very bright at long wavelengths. This requires careful correction of the data for out-of-band emission. The system is being fully characterized on the ground to provide supporting calibration data. The calibration uses observations of very stable white dwarfs to achieve the 10\% photometric accuracy requirement in both bands.",
keywords = "Calibration, CubeSats, Exoplanets, Ultraviolet, White Dwarfs",
author = "Ardila, \{David R.\} and Evgenya Shkolnik and Paul Scowen and Tahina Ramiaramanantsoa and Travis Barman and Judd Bowman and Christophe Basset and Johnathan Gamaunt and Dawn Gregory and Daniel Jacobs and Logan Jensen and April Jewell and Matthew Kolopanis and Mary Knapp and Gillian Kyne and Cristy Ladwig and Joe Llama and Victoria Meadows and Shouleh Nikzad and Sarah Peacock and Nathaniel Struebel and Mark Swain",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2024 SPIE.; Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray ; Conference date: 16-06-2024 Through 21-06-2024",
year = "2024",
doi = "10.1117/12.3019065",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "\{den Herder\}, \{Jan-Willem A.\} and Shouleh Nikzad and Kazuhiro Nakazawa",
booktitle = "Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024",
}