Publications

Below is a list of publications about the CUTE mission design, testing and integration, and science.

Sreejith, A. G., Fossati, Luca., Suresh, A., Egan. A., Nell, N., France, K., Fleming, B. T., Hass, S., Chambliss, M, DeCicco, N., Steller, M., The Autonomous Data Reduction Pipeline for the CUTE Mission, PASP 134, 114506, 2022. arXiv, Journal

Egan, A., France, K., Nell, N., DeCicco, N., Suresh, A., Kohnert, R., Fleming, B. T., Ulrich, S., “The Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment: The First Dedicated Ultraviolet Exoplanet Mission”, Proc. of Small Satellite Conference, SSC22-WKII-02, 2022, DigitalCommons

Nell, N., DeCicco, N., Ulrich, S., France, K., Fleming, B., “Development and characterization of the CCD detector for the Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment (CUTE) cubesat”, Proc. SPIE 11821, UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXII, 1182117 (24 August 2021); Journal

France, K., Exploring extreme exoplanets, Nat Astron 4, 1112, 2020. Journal

Egan, A, France, K., Fleming, B., DeCicco, N., Ulrich, S., Nell, N., Vorobiev, D., Kohnert, R., Suresh, A., Optical characterization of the Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment (CUTE) CubeSat, Proc. of SPIE 11444, 2020. Journal

Sreejith, A. G., Fossati, L., Fleming, B. T., France, K., Koskinen, T. T., Egan, A., Rudisser, H. T., Stellar, M., Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment Data Simulator, J. of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 2019. Journal, arXiv

DeCicco, N., Nell, N., France, K., Ulrich, S., Egan, A., Fleming, B. T., Kohnert, R., “Design and implementation of a thermoelectric cooling solution for a CCD-based nuv spectrograph” Proc of Small Satellite Conference, SS19-WKIV–07, 2019, DigitalCommons

Fleming, B., France, K. C., Nell, N, Kohnert, R. A., Pool, K., Egan, A., Fossati, L., Koskinen, T. T., Vidotto, A., Hoadley, K., Desert, J., Beasley, M., Petit, P. M., Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment: a dedicated CubeSat mission to study exoplanetary mass loss and magnetic fields, J. of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 2018. Journal, arXiv

Egan, A., Fleming, B., T., France, K., Nell, N., Ulrich, S., DeCicco, N., Kohnert, R., Sreejith, A. G., Fossati, L., Kruczek, N., The Colorado ultraviolet transit experiment (CUTE): final design and projected performance, Proc of SPIE 10699, 2018, Journal

Media & Press Coverage

Below is a potentially non-exhaustive list of news articles and blogs about the CUTE Mission.

October 10th 2021

Space Flight Now: Secondary payloads launched with Landsat begin commissioning

September 30th 2021

Futura-Sciences: A “cute” little satellite has just taken off to study exoplanets (the original article is in French)

September 26th 2021

Colorado Fox31: CU researchers prepare for launch sending cereal box-sized satellite into space to study planet evolution

The Science Times: Researchers Will Soon Launch a $4 Million Cereal Box-Sized Satellite to Space to Examine Planet Evolution, Exoplanets

September 25th 2021

NASA Earth Facebook Page: Recoded Interview with graduate student Arika Egan

Universe Today: A Tiny, Inexpensive Satellite Will be Studying the Atmospheres of hot Jupiters