Paper 13093-18
Paper 13093-18
Overview of the LAPYUTA mission (Life-environmentology, Astronomy, and PlanetarY Ultraviolet Telescope Assembly)
16 June 2024 • 16:00 - 16:20 Japan Standard Time | Room G414/415, North - 4F
Abstract
LAPYUTA (Life-environmentology, Astronomy, and PlanetarY Ultraviolet Telescope Assembly) is a future UV space telescope, which is selected as a candidate for JAXA's 6th M-class mission in 2023. Launch is planned for the early 2030s. LAPYUTA has the following four objectives. Objective 1 focuses on the subsurface ocean environment of Jupiter's icy moons and the atmospheric evolution of terrestrial planets. Objective 2 is to characterize the atmospheres and estimate the surface environment of exoplanets around the habitable zone by detecting their exospheric atmospheres. In cosmology and astronomy, Objective 3 will test whether the structures of present-day galaxies contain ubiquitous Lyα halos and reveal the physical origins of Lyα halos. Objective 4 elucidates the synthesis process of heavy elements from observations of ultraviolet radiation from hot gas immediately after neutron star mergers.
Presenter
Fuminori Tsuchiya
Tohoku Univ. (Japan)
Fuminori Tsuchiya received his Ph.D. in science from the Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. He is a full professor at Tohoku University. He works mainly on magnetospheres and ionospheres of solar system planets. He is PI of the LAPYUTA mission, and Co-I of the Japanese UV spectroscopy mission Hisaki, the Jupiter icy moon explorer JUICE/RPWI, the Japanese Geospace probe Arase/PWE, the Japanese Mars mission MMX/MIRS, and the Iitate Planetary Radio Telescope IPRT.