TY - GEN
T1 - The ultraviolet researcher to investigate the emergence of life
T2 - Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
AU - Gómez De Castro, Ana I.
AU - De Isidro-Gómez, Ana I.
AU - De Leyva, Diego
AU - Bachiotti, Francesca
AU - León, Julia
AU - Ribes, Pol
AU - Casalta, Joan Manel
AU - Miravet, Carlos
AU - Vallejo, Juan C.
AU - Sachkov, Mikhail
AU - Canet, Ada
AU - Shustov, Boris
AU - De La Fuente, Raúl
AU - France, Kevin
AU - Patty, Lucas
AU - Benetti, Stefano
AU - Ud-Doula, Asif
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The mission Ultraviolet Researcher to Investigate the Emergence of Life (URIEL) is designed to carry out low dispersion (600-1,000) UV spectropolarimetry in the 140-400 nm spectral range to investigate the formation of planetary systems, its interaction with stellar winds and search for signatures of prebiotic molecules by remote sensing of small bodies in the Solar System (comets and meteorites) in near Earth orbit. URIEL is conceived as a 50cm primary telescope with a RitcheyChrétien mounting. The telescope is equipped with a single instrument, the ultraviolet spectropolarimeter, whose low dispersion will enable resolving the main spectral features whilst guaranteeing enough flux per resolution element for the Stokes parameters to be measured to an accuracy of 500 ppm in the full range. According to recent calculations based on the chemical analysis of meteorites, this accuracy suffices for the remote detection of alanine by its optical activity at 180 nm in nearby minor bodies. In this sense, URIEL is a pathfinder mission to the technology that will enable remote sensing of amino acids and addressing the source of the chirality imbalance in Earth's bio-molecules.
AB - The mission Ultraviolet Researcher to Investigate the Emergence of Life (URIEL) is designed to carry out low dispersion (600-1,000) UV spectropolarimetry in the 140-400 nm spectral range to investigate the formation of planetary systems, its interaction with stellar winds and search for signatures of prebiotic molecules by remote sensing of small bodies in the Solar System (comets and meteorites) in near Earth orbit. URIEL is conceived as a 50cm primary telescope with a RitcheyChrétien mounting. The telescope is equipped with a single instrument, the ultraviolet spectropolarimeter, whose low dispersion will enable resolving the main spectral features whilst guaranteeing enough flux per resolution element for the Stokes parameters to be measured to an accuracy of 500 ppm in the full range. According to recent calculations based on the chemical analysis of meteorites, this accuracy suffices for the remote detection of alanine by its optical activity at 180 nm in nearby minor bodies. In this sense, URIEL is a pathfinder mission to the technology that will enable remote sensing of amino acids and addressing the source of the chirality imbalance in Earth's bio-molecules.
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U2 - 10.1117/12.2630650
DO - 10.1117/12.2630650
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85140454124
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022
A2 - den Herder, Jan-Willem A.
A2 - Nikzad, Shouleh
A2 - Nakazawa, Kazuhiro
PB - SPIE
Y2 - 17 July 2022 through 22 July 2022
ER -