ULTRASAT, to be launched by 2025, is a large field of view Near-UV camera.
The ULTRASAT satellite would revolutionize transient astrophysics, with the most exciting applications being:
1) ULTRASAT would be the most sensitive instrument to search for the electro-magnetic counterpart to binary neutron-star mergers found by gravitational wave observatories.
2) Detecting a large and systematic sample of supernovae shock-breakout UV emission. This would allow to better study the physics of these explosions with detail and robustness that was impossible until now.
These (and other) exciting science cases strongly depend on our ability to stack images and subtract images with very low tolerance for false positives.
Together with the group of Prof. Eran Ofek and Dr. Yossi Shvartzvald, we would develop the necessary algorithmical tools to facilitate this exciting applications. More specifically, we would extend the current methods to the uncharted territory of undersampled images.