Reflections on the discovery space for a large ultraviolet-visible telescope: inputs from the European-led EUVO exercise

Ana I. Gómez de Castro; Boris Gänsicke; Coralie Neiner; Martin A. Barstow

doi:10.1117/1.JATIS.2.4.041215

7 November 2016 Reflections on the discovery space for a large ultraviolet-visible telescope: inputs from the European-led EUVO exercise

Ana I. Gómez de Castro, Boris Gänsicke, Coralie Neiner, Martin A. Barstow

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Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, Vol. 2, Issue 4, 041215 (November 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.2.4.041215

Abstract

The solutions to a number of astrophysical problems require access to the ultraviolet, optical, and infrared from space-based facilities, with capabilities beyond those available with Hubble Space Telescope or James Webb Space Telescope. A large ultraviolet-optical-infrared telescope will need to have a large collecting area and milliarcsecond angular resolution capabilities plus highly efficient instruments, providing a revolutionary enhancement in capability. During 2013, the European astronomical community was involved in an exercise to outline the big science that could be achieved with such a facility; the proposal was called EUVO (as per European Ultraviolet-Visible Observatory). Inspired by that work, we describe a proposal on future science and instrumentation to be carried out with a 10-m class telescope.

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Ana I. Gómez de Castro, Boris Gänsicke, Coralie Neiner, and Martin A. Barstow "Reflections on the discovery space for a large ultraviolet-visible telescope: inputs from the European-led EUVO exercise," Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 2(4), 041215 (7 November 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.2.4.041215

Published: 7 November 2016

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