Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Jan 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21548003p&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #480.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.569
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
A key component of our 2008-2009 NASA Astrophysics Strategic Mission Concept Study entitled "An Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST): A Technology Roadmap for the Next Decade” is the identification of the astrophysics that can be uniquely accomplished using a filled, large-aperture UV/optical space telescope with an angular resolution 5 - 10 times better than JWST. We summarize here four research areas that are amongst the prime drivers for such an advanced astronomical facility: 1) the characterization of habitability and bio-signatures on terrestrial mass exoplanets, 2) the reconstruction of the detailed history of the assembly of stellar mass in the local universe, 3) determining the nature of the interaction of the IGM with galaxies and 4) the precise determination of growth of structure in the universe and the properties of dark matter as functions of time and environment.
ATLAST Team
Postman Marc
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