TY - GEN
T1 - UV Integral Field Unit Simulation Tools for the Upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory
AU - Sweetak, Grace
AU - Sitarski, Breann
AU - France, Kevin
AU - McEntaffer, Randy
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2025/9/18
Y1 - 2025/9/18
N2 - The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), recommended by the National Academies' 2020 decadal survey, will be engineered to identify and characterize Earth-like exoplanets, as well as conduct a wide range of transformative astrophysics. To reach the spatial and spectral resolution needed for enabling discovery, the scientific community has recommended a UV Integral Field Unit (IFU) to the currently proposed instrument suite. Current broad UV simulation tools exist, but none have yet come together in a cohesive fashion to derive science expectations for the proposed instrument. We present work on the newest developments for the HWO UV IFU simulation tool, developed to understand the science/engineering trade space. Within the tool, each optical component of the instrument has been modeled, with modularity integrated for the ability to explore a variety of science cases and their deliverables with the proposed instrument. The module components, deliverables, and proposed future work are discussed below with the overarching goal of providing an accessible simulation tool to understand the power of an IFU flown on the Habitable Worlds Observatory.
AB - The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), recommended by the National Academies' 2020 decadal survey, will be engineered to identify and characterize Earth-like exoplanets, as well as conduct a wide range of transformative astrophysics. To reach the spatial and spectral resolution needed for enabling discovery, the scientific community has recommended a UV Integral Field Unit (IFU) to the currently proposed instrument suite. Current broad UV simulation tools exist, but none have yet come together in a cohesive fashion to derive science expectations for the proposed instrument. We present work on the newest developments for the HWO UV IFU simulation tool, developed to understand the science/engineering trade space. Within the tool, each optical component of the instrument has been modeled, with modularity integrated for the ability to explore a variety of science cases and their deliverables with the proposed instrument. The module components, deliverables, and proposed future work are discussed below with the overarching goal of providing an accessible simulation tool to understand the power of an IFU flown on the Habitable Worlds Observatory.
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U2 - 10.1117/12.3065495
DO - 10.1117/12.3065495
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:105024359012
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - UV/Optical/IR Space Telescopes and Instruments
A2 - Arenberg, Jonathan W.
A2 - Stahl, H. Philip
PB - SPIE
T2 - 12th UV/Optical/IR Space Telescopes and Instruments: Innovative Technologies and Concepts
Y2 - 3 August 2025 through 5 August 2025
ER -