Identifying Organic Molecules in Space - The AstroBiology Explorer (ABE) Mission Concept

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Dec 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003aas...203.0310e&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society Meeting 203, #03.10; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 35, p.1205

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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The AstroBiology Explorer (ABE) mission concept consists of a modest dedicated space observatory having a 60 cm class primary mirror cooled to T < 50 K equipped with a modest resolution cross-dispersed spectrometers having cooled large format near- and mid-infrared detector arrays. Such as system would be capable of addressing outstanding problems in Astrochemistry and Astrophysics that are particularly relevant to Astrobiology and addressable via astronomical observation.
This mission's observationsal program would make fundamental scientific progress in establishing the nature, distribution, formation and evolution of organic and other molecular materials in the following extraterrestrial environments:
1 The Outflow of Dying Stars
2 The Diffuse Interstellar Medium
3 Dense Molecular Clouds, Star Formation Regions, and Young Stellar/Planetary Systems
4 Planets, Satellites, and Small Bodies within the Solar System, and
5 Interstellar Media of Other Galaxies
ABE could make fundamental progress in all of these areas by conducting a 1 to 2 year mission to obtain a coordinated set of infrared spectroscopic observations over the 2.5-20 micron spectral range at a spectral resolution of R > 2500 of about 1500 galaxies, stars, planetary nebulae, young stellar objects, and solar system objects.

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