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Title:
Science with the James Webb space telescope
Authors:
Gardner, Jonathan P.; Mather, John C.; Clampin, Mark; Doyon, Rene; Greenhouse, Matthew A.; Hammel, Heidi B.; Hutchings, John B.; Jakobsen, Peter; Lilly, Simon J.; Long, Knox S.; Lunine, Jonathan I.; McCaughrean, Mark J.; Mountain, Matt; Nella, John; Rieke, George H.; Rieke, Marcia J.; Rix, Hans-Walter; Smith, Eric P.; Sonneborn, George; Stiavelli, Massimo; Stockman, H. S.; Windhorst, Rogier A.; Wright, Gillian S.
Affiliation:
AA(NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (USA) and Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (Germany)), AB(NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (USA)), AC(NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (USA)), AD(Univ. de Montréal (Canada)), AE(NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (USA)), AF(Space Science Institute (USA)), AG(Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics (Canada)), AH(European Space Agency - ESTEC (Netherlands)), AI(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zürich (Switzerland)), AJ(Space Telescope Science Institute (USA)), AK(Lunar and Planetary Lab. (USA)), AL(Univ. of Exeter (United Kingdom)), AM(Space Telescope Science Institute (USA)), AN(Northrop Grumman Space Technology (USA)), AO(Univ. of Arizona (USA)), AP(Univ. of Arizona (USA)), AQ(Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (Germany)), AR(NASA (USA)), AS(NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (USA)), AT(Space Telescope Science Institute (USA)), AU(Space Telescope Science Institute (USA)), AV(Arizona State Univ. (USA)), AW(United Kingdom Astronomy Technology Ctr. (United Kingdom))
Publication:
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation I: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter. Edited by Mather, John C.; MacEwen, Howard A.; de Graauw, Mattheus W. M.. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 6265, pp. 62650N (2006). (SPIE Homepage)
Publication Date:
07/2006
Origin:
SPIE
DOI:
10.1117/12.670492
Bibliographic Code:
2006SPIE.6265E..17G

Abstract

The scientific capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) fall into four themes. The End of the Dark Ages: First Light and Reionization theme seeks to identify the first luminous sources to form and to determine the ionization history of the universe. The Assembly of Galaxies theme seeks to determine how galaxies and the dark matter, gas, stars, metals, morphological structures, and active nuclei within them evolved from the epoch of reionization to the present. The Birth of Stars and Protoplanetary Systems theme seeks to unravel the birth and early evolution of stars, from infall onto dust-enshrouded protostars, to the genesis of planetary systems. Planetary Systems and the Origins of Life theme seeks to determine the physical and chemical properties of planetary systems around nearby stars and of our own, and investigate the potential for life in those systems. To enable these for science themes, JWST will be a large (6.5m) cold (50K) telescope with four instruments, capable of imaging and spectroscopy from 0.6 to 29 microns wavelength.
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