Overview of the Origins Space telescope: Science drivers to observatory requirements
Paper in proceeding, 2018
The Origins Space Telescope (OST) mission concept study is the subject of one of the four science and technology definition studies supported by NASA Headquarters to prepare for the 2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey. OST will survey the most distant galaxies to discern the rise of metals and dust and to unveil the co-evolution of galaxy and blackhole formation, study the Milky Way to follow the path of water from the interstellar medium to habitable worlds in planetary systems, and measure biosignatures from exoplanets. This paper describes the science drivers and how they drove key requirements for OST Mission Concept 2, which will operate between ∼5 and ∼600 microns with a JWST sized telescope. Mission Concept 2 for the OST study optimizes the engineering for the key science cases into a powerful and more economical observatory compared to Mission Concept 1.
Author
Margaret Meixner
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Johns Hopkins University
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
Lee Armus
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
C. Battersby
University of Connecticut
James Bauer
University of Maryland
E. A. Bergin
University of Michigan
A. Cooray
University of California at Irvine (UCI)
Jonathan J. Fortney
University of California
Tiffany Kataria
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
David Leisawitz
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
S. Milam
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Klaus Pontoppidan
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
Alexandra Pope
University of Massachusetts
Karin Sandstrom
University of California
Johannes Staguhn
Johns Hopkins University
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Kevin B. Stevenson
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
K. Y. L. Su
University of Arizona
C. Matt Bradford
University of Massachusetts
Dominic Benford
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Denis Burgarella
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille
Sean Carey
Johns Hopkins University
R. Carter
University of California
Elvire De Beck
Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasmaphysics
M. Dipirro
University of California
Kimberly Ennico-Smith
NASA Ames Research Center
M. Gerin
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
F. Helmich
Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)
L. Kaltenegger
University of Florida
Eric E. Mamajek
University of California at Irvine (UCI)
G. J. Melnick
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Samuel Harvey Moseley
Cornell University
D. Narayanan
University of Tokyo
Susan G. Neff
University of California
Deborah Padgett
University of California at Irvine (UCI)
Thomas Roellig
NASA Ames Research Center
Itsuki Sakon
University of Florida
Douglas Scott
University of British Columbia (UBC)
K. Sheth
University of Arizona
Joaquin Vieira
University of Illinois
M.C. Wiedner
NASA Ames Research Center
Edward Wright
University of California
Jonas Zmuidzinas
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
0277786X (ISSN) 1996756X (eISSN)
Vol. 10698 106980N978-151061949-4 (ISBN)
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave
Austin, USA,
Austin, USA,
Subject Categories
Aerospace Engineering
Philosophy
History of Technology
DOI
10.1117/12.2312255