Letters of Intent received in 2016
LoI 2018-1907
SCIENCE CHALLENGES IN ULTRAVIOLET AND OPTICAL ASTROPHYSICS AFTER HUBBLE
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Date:
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20 August 2018 to 21 August 2018 |
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Category:
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Focus meetings (GA)
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Location:
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During GA in Vienna, Austria
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Contact:
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Ana Ines Gomez de Castro (aig@mat.ucm.es) |
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Coordinating division:
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Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science |
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Other divisions:
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Co-Chairs of SOC:
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Ana I Gomez de Castro (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) |
| Aki Roberge (NASA) |
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Chair of LOC:
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Topics
Origin of life, planets and exoplanets characterization, formation and evolution of planetary system, diffuse matter in space, intergalactic medium, star formation at all scales, interactive stars, physics of accretion and outflow, mergers and collisions (galaxies, black holes, stars)
Rationale
The Hubble Space Telescope has produced outstanding scientific results in all fields of astrophysics while working as an international space-based astronomical observatory during more than 20 years. The low orbit of Hubble has allowed keeping state of the art instrumentation that has adapted to the needs of a rapidly evolving science such as astrophysics is. It is time however, to look forwards to the future and the new challenges to come, very especially for ultraviolet and optical (UVO) space-based observatories. The objective of this Focus Meeting (FM) is to integrate the astronomical community-at-large during the GA, in the ongoing discussion about the scientific challenges that any new space-based UVO observatory will have to confront.
During the 1.5 days of the FM, the scientific challenges that astrophysics will need to address during the next two decades will be discussed in three open, interdisciplinary sessions addressing the Emergence of Life in the Universe, Star Formation and its decline since z=1.7 and the high energy Universe (accretion and outflow physics, stellar mergers, sources of gravitational waves…). Special emphasis will be made on the space instrumentation that will be required in the after Hubble epoch with a focus on the synergy with the on-going facilities.