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The Polstar high resolution spectropolarimetry MIDEX mission

Scowen, Paul A. ; Gayley, Ken ; Ignace, Richard ; Neiner, Coralie ; Vasudevan, Gopal ; Woodruff, Robert ; Casini, Roberto ; Shultz, Matt ; Andersson, B.-G. ; Wisniewski, John

Astrophysics and space science, 2022-12, Vol.367 (12), p.121, Article 121 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

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The Polstar high resolution spectropolarimetry MIDEX mission
Autor: Scowen, Paul A. ; Gayley, Ken ; Ignace, Richard ; Neiner, Coralie ; Vasudevan, Gopal ; Woodruff, Robert ; Casini, Roberto ; Shultz, Matt ; Andersson, B.-G. ; Wisniewski, John
Assuntos: Accretion ; Accretion disks ; Alignment ; Astrobiology ; Astronomy ; Astrophysics ; Astrophysics and Astroparticles ; B stars ; Binary stars ; Circular polarization ; Composition ; Cosmic dust ; Cosmology ; Dust ; Galactic evolution ; Galaxies ; Gas flow ; High resolution ; Hot stars ; Interstellar dust ; Interstellar matter ; Interstellar medium ; Kinematics ; Kinetic energy ; Magellanic clouds ; Massive stars ; Metallicity ; Observations and Techniques ; Opacity ; Original Article ; Physics ; Physics and Astronomy ; Polarimetry ; Polarization ; Preconditioning ; Protoplanetary disks ; Sampling ; Space Exploration and Astronautics ; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics ; Space telescopes ; Spectral resolution ; Spectroscopy ; Star & galaxy formation ; Star formation ; Stars & galaxies ; Stellar evolution ; Stellar winds ; Supernova ; Time domain analysis ; Wavelengths ; Wind variability
É parte de: Astrophysics and space science, 2022-12, Vol.367 (12), p.121, Article 121
Descrição: The Polstar mission will provide a space-borne 60 cm spectropolarimeter operating at ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths, capturing all four Stokes parameters (intensity, two linear polarization components, and circular polarization). Polstar ’s capabilities are designed to meet its goal of determining how circumstellar gas flows alter and inform massive star evolution, affect the stellar remnant population, and stir and enrich the interstellar medium (ISM). These will be achieved by investigating the dynamical geometries in the winds and disks of hot stars, the composition and magnetic alignment of interstellar dust, and the star-forming accretion disks of UV-bright stars at an important transition boundary. Together these areas map out a kind of two-way interface between massive stars and their effect on our galaxy, wherein the stellar winds enrich the ISM with metals and kinetic energy, preconditioning their environment and the stellar endpoints prior to undergoing supernova. The ISM dust in turn reveals the composition and magnetic environment leading to new star formation, and the accretion disks of Herbig Ae/Be stars reveal how the ISM gas returns to make new massive stars. Polstar will combine high-resolution spectroscopy in the time domain with high-precision UV polarimetry. Doppler-shifted UV resonance line opacity will provide information about circumstellar kinematics, while polarization gives complementary geometric information about unseen structures. The composition and magnetic alignment of the smallest interstellar dust grains provides a probe of the ISM utilizing radiative alignment theory (RAT). Polstar will operate in the far-UV (FUV) at 122–200 nm at high spectral resolution of around R ∼ 30 k , and at FUV and near-UV (NUV) wavelengths of 122–320 nm at lower spectral resolutions of 0.1 − 1 k . Detection of polarization levels as weak as 0.1% are expected, with a temporal cadence ranging from 5–10 minutes for most wind variability studies, to hours or days for sampling rotation, to days or weeks for sampling binary orbits, to months to a year for sampling substructure in the inner regions of protoplanetary disks. Sub-meter-class aperture is well suited to access this wide array of time domain science, made possible by restricting to a few hundred bright, massive stars, necessarily extincted by a small to moderate column of interstellar dust, informing both the attributes of the stars and the ISM through which they are seen. As such, the focus is on our own galaxy and its evolutionary drivers, but a few targets in the Magellanic clouds offer the potential to extend this understanding to low-metallicity environments.
Editor: Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands
Idioma: Inglês

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The Polstar high resolution spectropolarimetry MIDEX mission

Scowen, Paul A. ; Gayley, Ken ; Ignace, Richard ; Neiner, Coralie ; Vasudevan, Gopal ; Woodruff, Robert ; Casini, Roberto ; Shultz, Matt ; Andersson, B.-G. ; Wisniewski, John

Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

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