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Spectral Imager of the Solar Atmosphere: The First Extreme-Ultraviolet Solar Integral Field Spectrograph Using Slicers (2024)
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Calcines Rosario, A., Auchère, F., Corso, A. J., Del Zanna, G., Dudík, J., Gissot, S., …Ryan, D. F. (2024). Spectral Imager of the Solar Atmosphere: The First Extreme-Ultraviolet Solar Integral Field Spectrograph Using Slicers. Aerospace, 11(3), Article 208. https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace11030208

Particle acceleration, and the thermalisation of energetic particles, are fundamental processes across the universe. Whilst the Sun is an excellent object to study this phenomenon, since it is the most energetic particle accelerator in the Solar Syst... Read More about Spectral Imager of the Solar Atmosphere: The First Extreme-Ultraviolet Solar Integral Field Spectrograph Using Slicers.

The Solar Particle Acceleration Radiation and Kinetics (SPARK) Mission Concept (2023)
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Reid, H. A. S., Musset, S., Ryan, D. F., Andretta, V., Auchère, F., Baker, D., …Warmuth, A. (2023). The Solar Particle Acceleration Radiation and Kinetics (SPARK) Mission Concept. Aerospace, 10(12), Article 1034. https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace10121034

Particle acceleration is a fundamental process arising in many astrophysical objects, including active galactic nuclei, black holes, neutron stars, gamma-ray bursts, accretion disks, solar and stellar coronae, and planetary magnetospheres. Its ubiqui... Read More about The Solar Particle Acceleration Radiation and Kinetics (SPARK) Mission Concept.

Optical Design of a Miniaturised Solar Magnetograph for Space Applications (2023)
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Calcines Rosario, A., Green, L. M., Smith, A., & Long, D. M. (2023). Optical Design of a Miniaturised Solar Magnetograph for Space Applications. Aerospace, 10(12), Article 1028. https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace10121028

Measuring the Sun’s magnetic field is a key component of monitoring solar activity and forecasting space weather. The main goal of the research presented in this paper is to investigate the possibility of reducing the dimensions and weight of a solar... Read More about Optical Design of a Miniaturised Solar Magnetograph for Space Applications.

Conceptual Design of an On-Axis 6 m Space Telescope at the Diffraction Limit: Characteristics, Performance and Advantages (2023)
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Calcines Rosario, A. (2023). Conceptual Design of an On-Axis 6 m Space Telescope at the Diffraction Limit: Characteristics, Performance and Advantages. Aerospace, 10(12), Article 1003. https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace10121003

This paper presents the conceptual design of an on-axis 6 metre aperture space telescope designed to cover a field of view of ±0.2 degrees with an optical quality at the diffraction limit within a spectral range between 0.5 μm and 2.5 μm. The plate s... Read More about Conceptual Design of an On-Axis 6 m Space Telescope at the Diffraction Limit: Characteristics, Performance and Advantages.

The European Solar Telescope (2022)
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Quintero Noda, C., Schlichenmaier, R., Bellot Rubio, L., Löfdahl, M., Khomenko, E., Jurcak, J., …Team, T. E. (2022). The European Solar Telescope. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 666, Article A21. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202243867

The European Solar Telescope (EST) is a project aimed at studying the magnetic connectivity of the solar atmosphere, from the deep photosphere to the upper chromosphere. Its design combines the knowledge and expertise gathered by the European solar p... Read More about The European Solar Telescope.

Design of the VLT-CUBES image slicers: Field re-formatters to provide two spectral resolutions (2022)
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Calcines, A., Wells, M., O’Brien, K., Morris, S., Seifert, W., Zanutta, A., …Di Marcantonio, P. (2023). Design of the VLT-CUBES image slicers: Field re-formatters to provide two spectral resolutions. Experimental Astronomy, 55(1), 267-280. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-022-09866-5

CUBES is a high efficiency spectrograph designed for a Cassegrain focus of the Very Large Telescope and is expected to be in operation in 2028. It is designed to observe point or compact sources in a spectral range from 300 to 405nm. CUBES will provi... Read More about Design of the VLT-CUBES image slicers: Field re-formatters to provide two spectral resolutions.

CUBES phase a design overview (2022)
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Zanutta, A., Cristiani, S., Atkinson, D., Baldini, V., Balestra, A., Barbuy, B., Macanhan, V. B. P., Calcines, A., Calderone, G., Case, S., Castilho, B. V., Cescutti, G., Cirami, R., Coretti, I., Covino, S., Cupani, G., De Caprio, V., Dekker, H., Di Marcantonio, P., D’Odorico, V., …Zorba, S. (online). CUBES phase a design overview. Experimental Astronomy, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-022-09837-w

We present the baseline conceptual design of the Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph (CUBES) for the Very Large Telescope. CUBES will provide unprecedented sensitivity for spectroscopy on a 8 – 10 m class telescope in the ground ultraviolet (UV)... Read More about CUBES phase a design overview.

The high-energy Sun - probing the origins of particle acceleration on our nearest star (2021)
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Matthews, S., Reid, H., Baker, D., Bloomfield, D., Browning, P., Calcines, A., …Vilmer, N. (2022). The high-energy Sun - probing the origins of particle acceleration on our nearest star. Experimental Astronomy, 54, 335-360. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-021-09798-6

As a frequent and energetic particle accelerator, our Sun provides us with an excellent astrophysical laboratory for understanding the fundamental process of particle acceleration. The exploitation of radiative diagnostics from electrons has shown th... Read More about The high-energy Sun - probing the origins of particle acceleration on our nearest star.

Magnetic imaging of the outer solar atmosphere (MImOSA) (2021)
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Peter, H., Ballester, E. A., Andretta, V., Auchère, F., Belluzzi, L., Bemporad, A., Berghmans, D., Buchlin, E., Calcines, A., Chitta, L., Dalmasse, K., Alemán, T. D. P., Feller, A., Froment, C., Harrison, R., Janvier, M., Matthews, S., Parenti, S., Przybylski, D., Solanki, S., …Bueno, J. T. (online). Magnetic imaging of the outer solar atmosphere (MImOSA). Experimental Astronomy, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-021-09774-0

The magnetic activity of the Sun directly impacts the Earth and human life. Likewise, other stars will have an impact on the habitability of planets orbiting these host stars. Although the magnetic field at the surface of the Sun is reasonably well c... Read More about Magnetic imaging of the outer solar atmosphere (MImOSA).

Development of an 11-channel multi wavelength imaging diagnostic for divertor plasmas in MAST Upgrade (2021)
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Feng, X., Calcines, A., Sharples, R., Lipschultz, B., Perek, A., Vijvers, W., …Mumgaard, R. (2021). Development of an 11-channel multi wavelength imaging diagnostic for divertor plasmas in MAST Upgrade. Review of Scientific Instruments, 92(6), Article 063510. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0043533

Divertor detachment and alternative divertor magnetic geometries are predicted to be promising approaches to handle the power exhaust of future fusion devices. In order to understand the detachment process caused by volumetric losses in alternative d... Read More about Development of an 11-channel multi wavelength imaging diagnostic for divertor plasmas in MAST Upgrade.