The NASA probe-class mission concept, CETUS (Cosmic Evolution Through Ultraviolet Spectroscopy)

Sara Heap; William Danchi; James Burge; Kelly Dodson; Anthony Hull; Steven Kendrick; Stephan McCandliss; Gregory Mehle; Lloyd Purves; David Sheikh; Martin Valente; Robert A. Woodruff

doi:10.1117/12.2274202

5 September 2017 The NASA probe-class mission concept, CETUS (Cosmic Evolution Through Ultraviolet Spectroscopy)

Sara Heap, William Danchi, James Burge, Kelly Dodson, Anthony Hull, Steven Kendrick, Stephan McCandliss, Gregory Mehle, Lloyd Purves, David Sheikh, Martin Valente, Robert A. Woodruff

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Proceedings Volume 10398, UV/Optical/IR Space Telescopes and Instruments: Innovative Technologies and Concepts VIII; 103980U (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2274202
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2017, San Diego, California, United States

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We report on the early phases of a NASA-sponsored study of CETUS (Cosmic Evolution Through Ultraviolet Spectroscopy), a Probe-class mission concept. By definition, the full lifecycle cost of a Probe mission is greater than $400M (i.e. Explorer missions) and less than $1.00B (“Flagship” missions). The animating idea behind our study is that CETUS can help answer fundamental questions about galaxy evolution by carrying out a massive UV imaging and spectroscopic survey of galaxies and combining its findings with data obtained by other survey telescopes of the 2020’s. The CETUS mission concept comprises a 1.5-m wide-field telescope and three scientific instruments: a near-UV multi-object slit spectrograph with a micro-shutter array as the slit device; a near-UV and far-UV camera with angular resolution of 0.42” (near-UV) or 0.55” (far-UV); and a near-UV or far-UV single-object spectrograph aimed at providing access to the UV after Hubble is gone. We describe the scientific rationale for CETUS and the telescope and instruments in their early design phase.

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Sara Heap, William Danchi, James Burge, Kelly Dodson, Anthony Hull, Steven Kendrick, Stephan McCandliss, Gregory Mehle, Lloyd Purves, David Sheikh, Martin Valente, and Robert A. Woodruff "The NASA probe-class mission concept, CETUS (Cosmic Evolution Through Ultraviolet Spectroscopy)", Proc. SPIE 10398, UV/Optical/IR Space Telescopes and Instruments: Innovative Technologies and Concepts VIII, 103980U (5 September 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2274202

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