@inproceedings{b27446c7fe6c48a9b47e538343d115fe,
title = "The ultraviolet researcher to investigate the emergence of life: a mission proposal to ESA's F-call",
abstract = "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 RitcheyChr{\'e}tien 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.",
author = "\{G{\'o}mez De Castro\}, \{Ana I.\} and \{De Isidro-G{\'o}mez\}, \{Ana I.\} and \{De Leyva\}, Diego and Francesca Bachiotti and Julia Le{\'o}n and Pol Ribes and Casalta, \{Joan Manel\} and Carlos Miravet and Vallejo, \{Juan C.\} and Mikhail Sachkov and Ada Canet and Boris Shustov and \{De La Fuente\}, Ra{\'u}l and Kevin France and Lucas Patty and Stefano Benetti and Asif Ud-Doula",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} COPYRIGHT SPIE. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.; Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray ; Conference date: 17-07-2022 Through 22-07-2022",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.1117/12.2630650",
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 2022",
address = "United States",
}