Science drivers and requirements for an Advanced Technology Large Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST): Implications for technology development and synergies with other future facilities

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7731, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Postman, Marc ^a   Brown, Tom ^a   Sembach, Kenneth ^a   Giavalisco, Mauro ^b   Traub, Wesley ^c   Stapelfeldt, Karl ^c   Calzetti, Daniela ^b   Oegerle, William ^d   Rich, R Michael ^e   Stahl, H Phillip ^f   Tumlinson, Jason ^a   Mountain, Matt ^a   Soummer, Rémi ^a   Hyde, Tupper ^d  

^a STScI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced Technology Large Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST); Astrobiology; Astrophysics; Technology development; Ultraviolet optical space telescopes

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY; ANGULAR RESOLUTION; CURRENT GENERATION; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HIGH STABILITY; LARGE APERTURE; LIGHT WAVELENGTHS; PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS; SPACE MISSIONS; SPACE OBSERVATORIES; TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT; ULTRAVIOLET/OPTICAL SPACE TELESCOPES; WAVE-FRONT SENSING;

ASTROPHYSICS; BUILDINGS; INSTRUMENTS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPACE TELESCOPES; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; TECHNOLOGY;

SPACE APPLICATIONS;

EID: 77958132468     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857044     Document Type: Conference Paper

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