The Lazuli Space Observatory: Architecture & Capabilities

arXiv:2601.02556 · astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-01-05 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-01-05

Updated: 2026-09-01

Comments: 33 pages, 15 figures, 1 table. Version accepted for publication in ApJ

Code: https://github.com/nasavbailey/DI-flux-ratio-plot

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Calibration — 16× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Aperture — 14× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers — 9× in this paper
• Multi-messenger Astronomy — 8× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Integral Field Spectrograph — 7× in this paper
• Core — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Primary Mirror — 5× in this paper
• Gravitational Lensing — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Wide Field — 4× in this paper
• Microlensing — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Narrow Field — 3× in this paper
• Point Spread Function — 3× in this paper
• Steering — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transmission spectroscopy — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Abundance — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Latent Space — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Off-axis Three-Mirror Anastigmat — 2× in this paper
• Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Wide-field Context Camera — 2× in this paper
• Ab Initio — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptive Optics (AO) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adjoint Method — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Computational Biology — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Degeneracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fast-Steering Mirror — 1× in this paper
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Habitable Worlds Observatory — 1× in this paper
• Highly Elliptical Orbit — 1× in this paper
• Hubble Space Telescope — 1× in this paper
• James Webb Space Telescope — 1× in this paper
• Linear Polarizer — 1× in this paper
• Metallicity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Provenance — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Redundancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Structural Thermal Optical Performance — 1× in this paper
• Target of Opportunity — 1× in this paper
• Tertiary Mirror — 1× in this paper

Sources

• The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope: 100 Hubbles for the 2020s
• The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB): 1. Design and Assembly of a Vacuum-compatible Coronagraph Testbed for Spaceborne High-Contrast Imaging Technology
• The Origin and Evolution of Saturn: A Post-Cassini Perspective
• On the synergetic use of Ariel and JWST for exoplanet atmospheric science
• Characterizing the Roman Grism Redshift Efficiency of Type Ia Supernova Host Galaxies for the High-Latitude Time-Domain Survey
• Integrated modeling of wavefront sensing and control for space telescopes utilizing active and adaptive optics
• ZTF-SEDm Type Ia supernova sample for Twins Embedding spectrophotometric standardisation
• The DSA-2000 -- A Radio Survey Camera
• The Case for Space: Estimating Precise Time Delays from Ground- and Space-Based Observations of Lensed Supernovae with Glimpse
• The Chicago Carnegie Hubble Program: Improving the Calibration of SNe Ia with JWST Measurements of the Tip of the Red Giant Branch
• Design and Test of Small Mirror Supports for Harsh Environments
• A PyTorch Benchmark for High-Contrast Imaging Post Processing
• Towards An Integrated Optical Transient Utility
• Science with the Ultraviolet Explorer (UVEX)
• Exomoons & Exorings with the Habitable Worlds Observatory I: On the Detection of Earth-Moon Analog Shadows & Eclipses
• More data than you want, less data than you need: machine learning approaches to starlight subtraction with MagAO-X
• Doubly Discordant SH0ES NGC4258 Cepheid Relations (HVI), and Impactful Extinction Laws
• High-Contrast Imaging at First-Light of the GMT: The Preliminary Design of GMagAO-X
• Simulating the efficacy of the implicit-electric-field-conjugation algorithm for the Roman Coronagraph with noise
• Report on Community Cadence Observing to Maximize the Scientific Output of the Keck Planet Finder

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