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titleCubeSats

CuRIOS (CubeSats for Rapid Infrared and Optical Surveys)

CuRIOS is a fleet of Cube Satellites that will study star death and afterlife by observing transient phenomena originating from black holes and neutron stars. The CuRIOS swarm will provide constant (all the time) coverage of the entire sky in the optical/near-IR. The main science case is to locate and understand the physical processes behind stellar-mass black holes by observing microlensing events in the Galactic Center region. The CuRIOS team includes Prof. Jessica Lu, Prof. Josh Bloom, and Prof. Steven Beckwith, along with graduate student Hannah Gulick and post-doc Guy Nir.

Goal: Develop a concept for a constellation of CubeSats to perform a wide-field survey (eventually all-sky) with the goal of delivering precision photometry down to ~20th mag in the optical or ~18th mag in the infrared.

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