《#8226;SIM Lite Measurements Near amp; Far》.pdf

SIM
Lite

 Measurements
Near

Far
 Ricky
Paerson
 University
of
Virginia
 Marc Kuchner – NASA GSFC Manoj Kaplinghat – UC Irvine Guillem Anglada-Escudé – DTM Rob Olling – U Maryland AAS,
Jan.
2010
 SIM
Measurements
Near
and
Far
 1
 SIM
Lite
Measurements
Near

Far
 •  Sizes
and
Shapes
of
Kuiper
Belt
Objects
and
 Centaurs
with
SIM
–
 Marc
Kuchner
 •  Gaia‐SIM
Legacy
Project
–
Guillem
Anglada‐ Escudé
 •  Determining
the
Nature
of
Dark
Maer
using
 Proper
Moons
of
Stars
in
the
Milky
Way
 Satellites
–
 Manoj
Kaplinghat
 •  1%
Luminosity‐Independent
Distances
to
 Nearby
Galaxies
with
the
Rotaonal
Parallax
 Technique
–
 Rob
Olling
 AAS,
Jan.
2010
 SIM
Measurements
Near
and
Far
 2
 Sizes

Shapes
of
KBOs

Centaurs
 •  Use
SIM
Lite
to
determine
sizes,
shapes,
 rotaon
periods
 •  SIM
Lite
can
resolve
objects
down
to
a
few
 mas,
compared
with
80mas
with
WFC3
 •  Allows
sizes
to
be
determined
free
of
 modeling
assumpons
 •  (u,v)
mapping
may
reveal
polar
caps
and
other
 features
 AAS,
Jan.
2010
 SIM
Measurements
Near
and
Far
 3
 Sizes

Shapes
of
KBOs

Centaurs
 •  Need
non‐sidereal
tracking
 –  KBO
proper
moons
of
~1
mas/s

 –  MBA
proper
moon
of
~10
mas/s
 •  1
fringe
per
2
seconds
at
0.5
micron
 •  For
larger/closer
asteroids,
will
need
to
rely

 on
the
larger
fringe
spacing
from
the
guide
 interferometer
 Jian-Yang Li, M. Kuchner,, R. J. Allen S. S. Sheppard (in prep) AAS,
Jan.
2010
 SIM
Measurements
Near
and
Far
 4
 Gaia
+
SIM
Lite
Legacy
Project
 •  Combining
Gaia
and
SIM
astrometry
to
take
 advantage
of
the
longer
me
baseline
 •  Measure
perspecve
acceleraon
of
White
 dwarfs
within
20
pc
to
determine
gravitaonal
 redshi
to
2%‐10%
 –