MoonLITE: Interferometer Explorer Proposal

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Studying stars from the lunar surface with MoonLITE, courtesy of NASA's commercial lunar payload services

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A team of researchers propose MoonLITE (Lunar InTerferometry Explorer) as part of the NASA Astrophysics Pioneers program.

The team aspires to study the radii of low-mass stars (M-dwarfs) and brown dwarfs, young stellar objects (YSOs) and active galactic nuclei (AGNs) The MoonLite would be more than a thousand times more sensitive than terrestrial 8-meter collecting apertures, because it can stare for many minutes at a time.

MoonLITE is a 2.2-kilometer interferometer telescope comprised of 16 smaller telescopes that are 0.5-meters in diameter.

Scientists hope to gain insight into stars, young stellar objects, and active galactic nuclei from potentially anywhere in the Universe .

MoonLite is designed to work within the cost box for the NASA Pioneers call for proposals.

More information: Gerard T. van Belle et al, MoonLITE: a CLPS -delivered NASA Astrophysics Pioneers lunar optical interferometer for sensitive, milliarcsecond observing, arXiv ( 2024 ). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2408.01392 Journal information: arXiv Provided by Universe Today .

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