Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Dec 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007aas...211.1705l&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #17.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.767
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
The New Worlds Observer (NWO) external occulter mission concept provides a very flexible architecture to address a broad range of needs within the astrophysics community. In this paper, we present an overview of the ancillary astrophysics observations that are possible with NWO. In one incarnation, we envision NWO operating with a 4 meter UV-Vis telescope. This telescope will meet a need in the community for high spatial- and spectral-resolution observations in the UV-Vis after the retirement of the Hubble Space Telescope. We discuss some of the top-level general-astrophysics measurements possible with the telescope, as well as high-contrast non-exoplanet observations that can be obtained using the occulter, such as AGN detection and binary star observations. In addition, we discuss the extensibility of the NWO architecture to vision missions such as Lifefinder and Planet Imager. Finally, we address some of the technology demonstrations that NWO will be able to perform that will significantly advance the state of the art for several different astronomical fields.
Glassman Tiffany
Lillie Chuck
Lo Amy
Polidan Ron
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