@inproceedings{ca8e4ff474434e3583e9e4d12f889353,
title = "Monitoring the high-energy radiation environment of exoplanets around low-mass stars with SPARCS (Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat)",
abstract = "Roughly 40 billion M dwarfs in our galaxy host at least one small planet in the habitable zone (HZ). The stellar ultraviolet (UV) radiation from M dwarfs is strong and highly variable, and impacts planetary atmospheric loss, composition and habitability. These effects are amplified by the extreme proximity of their HZs (0.1-0.4 AU). Knowing the UV environments of M dwarf planets will be crucial to understanding their atmospheric composition and a key parameter in discriminating between biological and abiotic sources for observed biosignatures. The Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS) will be a 6U CubeSat devoted to photometric monitoring of M stars in the far-UV and near-UV, measuring the time-dependent spectral slope, intensity and evolution of low-mass star high-energy radiation.",
keywords = "Cubesat, Exoplanet, Habitability, Imaging, Low Mass Stars, Photometry, Radiation Environment, Ultraviolet",
author = "Paul Scowen and Evgenya Shkolnik and David Ardila and Travis Berman and Matthew Beasley and Judd Bowman and Michael Fitzgerald and Varoujan Gorjian and Daniel Jacobs and April Jewell and Joe Llama and Victoria Meadows and Shouleh Nikzad and Constance Spittler and Mark Swain and Robert Zellem",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 SPIE.; Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray ; Conference date: 10-06-2018 Through 15-06-2018",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.1117/12.2315543",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781510619517",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Shouleh Nikzad and {Den Herder}, {Jan-Willem A.} and Kazuhiro Nakazawa",
booktitle = "Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018",
}