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Prisma: A New Space Mission For Stellar Physics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

T. Appourchaux ,
D. Gough ,
P. Hyoyng ,
C. Catala ,
S. Frandsen ,
C. Fröhlich ,
A. Jones ,
P. Lemaire ,
G. Tondello  and
W.W. Weiss
T. Appourchaux
Affiliation:
ESA/ESTEC, P.O.Box 299, 2200AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands
D. Gough
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 OHA, England
P. Hyoyng
Affiliation:
SRON, Sorbonnelaan 2, 3584 CA Utrecht, The Netherlands
C. Catala
Affiliation:
DESPA - Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, 92100 Meudon, France
S. Frandsen
Affiliation:
Aarhus Universiteit, Langelandsgade, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
C. Fröhlich
Affiliation:
PMOD/WRC, POB 173, 7260 Davos Dorf, Switzerland
A. Jones
Affiliation:
Aarhus Universiteit, Langelandsgade, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
P. Lemaire
Affiliation:
IAS, BP 10, 91371 Verrieres-le-Buisson Cedex, France
G. Tondello
Affiliation:
Universita di Padova, Via Gradenigo 6A, 35100 Padova, Italy
W.W. Weiss
Affiliation:
Institute für Astronomie, Türkenschanzstraße 17, 1180 Wien, Austria

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PRISMA (Probing Rotation and Interior of Stars: Microvariability and Activity) is a new space mission of the European Space Agency. PRISMA is currently in a Phase A study with 3 other competitors. PRISMA is the only ESA-only mission amongst those four and only one mission will be selected in Spring 1993 to become a real space mission.

The goal of the Phase A study is to determine whether the payload of PRISMA can be accommodated on a second unit of the X-ray Multi-Mirror (XMM) bus; and whether the budget of the PRISMA mission can be kept below 265 MAU (’88 Economic conditions). The XMM mission is an approved cornerstone and is in a Phase A together with PRISMA.

Type
XII. Prisma
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 137: Inside the Stars , 1993 , pp. 812 - 819
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1993