Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-07-10
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages, Latex. 2 figures. To appear in "Hubble's Science Legacy: Future Optical-Ultraviolet Astronomy from Space", eds. K.R.
Scientific paper
An 8 m successor to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) would make incredible gains in the study of stellar populations, especially in the Local Group. If diffraction-limited at 0.5 microns, the "Next HST" could produce high-resolution imaging of faint sources over a wide field in 1 percent of the time needed with the HST. With these capabilities, photometry of the ancient main sequence could be obtained for many sight-lines through Local Group galaxies, thus determining directly the ages of their structures and providing a formation history for the Local Group populations.
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