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Aspera Non-refereed Publications


  1. Detection and Emission Mapping of the Warm-hot Circumgalactic Medium with the Aspera Pioneers Mission
    Khan, A et al., AAS, 243, 15408 (2024)
  2. Payload Design of Aspera Mission: Detecting Warm-hot Circumgalactic Medium in Emission
    Chung, H et al., AAS, 243, 25009 (2024)
  3. Development of a data reduction pipeline for the Aspera SmallSat mission
    Keppler, M et al., SPIE, 13101, 1Q (2024)
  4. Optical alignment of contamination-sensitive Far-Ultraviolet spectrographs for Aspera SmallSat mission
    Khan, A et al., arXiv, 2407, 15391 (2024)
  5. Overview of the ground and onboard calibration for Aspera SmallSat
    Khan, A et al., AAS, 242, 10705 (2023)
  6. Per Aspera ad Astra Simul - ERASMUS+ program supporting mobilities ofyoung astronomers from Spain, Czechia and Slovakia
    Kabath, P et al., EPSC, 16, 314 (2022)
  7. Per aspera ad astra
    Blome, H, Expedition ins Sternenmeer: Perspektiven, Chancen und Risiken einer interstellaren Raumfahrt, 29 (2022)
  8. Aspera: Revealing the Diffuse Universe
    Vargas, C, Hamden, E & Chung, H, AAS, 237, 21504 (2021)
  9. Aspera: Instrument Overview and Performance
    Chung, H et al., AAS, 237, 23101 (2021)
  10. UArizona Will Lead NASA Space Telescope Mission to Reveal Unseen, Dynamic Lives of Galaxies
    Stolte, D, University of Arizona News, Jan 7 2021 (accessed 10 Aug 2022)