Design and Implementation of the Widefield High-resolution UV/Optical Star Formation Camera for the THEIA Mission

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The Star Formation Camera (SFC) is a wide-field ( 15'x19', > 280 arcmin2), high-resolution (18x18 mas pixels) UV/optical dichroic camera for the 4-m THEIA space telescope concept. SFC will deliver diffraction-limited images at lambda > 300 nm in both a Blue (190--517nm) and a Red (517--1075nm) Channel simultaneously. Our aim is to conduct a comprehensive and systematic study of the astrophysical processes and environments relevant for the births and life cycles of stars and their planetary systems, and to investigate and understand the range of environments, feedback mechanisms, and other factors that most affect the outcome of the star and planet formation process. We present the design and performance specifications resulting from the implementation study of the camera, conducted under NASA's Astrophysics Space Mission Concept Studies program, which is intended to assembly realistic options for mission development over the next decade. The result is a lightweight, low-cost instrument that will provide deep, high-resolution imaging across a wide angular field enabling a wide variety of community science as well as completing the core science that drives the design of the camera. The technology associated with the camera is next generation but still relatively high TRL, allowing a low-risk solution with moderate technology development investment over the next 10 years. The completed study will be used as input to not only the NASA decadal strategic planning process but also to the NAS Decadal Survey on Astronomy.
This work has been supported by NASA-GSFC contract NNX08AK79G.

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