Cosmic Origins
Searching for answers about our universe and its origins

Cosmic Origins Program Analysis Group
NASA Request for Information (RFI)

Science Objectives and Requirements for the Next NASA UV/Visible Astrophysics Mission Concepts

RFI Response Submissions

Responses Individual Files

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Title Author
How do molecules and dust form in massive interacting winds? [PDF] Gull
The Importance of White Dwarf Stars as Tests of Stellar Physics and Galactic Evolution [PDF] Provencal
The Origin of the Elements Heavier than Iron [PDF] Lawler
UVMag: Stellar physics with UV and visible spectropolarimetry [PDF] Neiner
Response to Request for Information: NNH12ZDA008L [PDF] Ignace
Mass Transport Processes and their Roles in the Formation, Structure, and Evolution of Stars and Stellar Systems [PDF] Carpenter
Understanding Global Galactic Star Formation [PDF] Scowen
The Magellanic Clouds Survey — a Bridge to Nearby Galaxies [PDF] Scowen
Massive Stars: Key to Solving the Cosmic Puzzle [PDF] Wofford
Conditions for Life in the Local Universe [PDF] Barstow
The History of Star Formation in Galaxies [PDF] Brown
Space-Based UV/Optical Wide-Field Imaging and Spectroscopy: Near-Field Cosmology and Galaxy Evolution Using Globular Clusters in Nearby Galaxies [PDF] Goudfrooij
The Crucial Role of High Spatial Resolution, High Sensitivity UV Observations to Galaxy Evolution Studies [PDF] Williams
A Census of Local Group Ultraviolet Dust Extinction Curves [PDF] Gordon
The Baryon Census in a Multiphase Intergalactic Medium [PDF] Shull
Quasar Absorption Lines in the Far Ultraviolet: An Untapped Gold Mine for Galaxy Evolution Studies [PDF] Tripp
Seeking into the anthropic principle [PDF] Gomez de Castro
The escape fraction of ionizing photons from dwarf galaxies [PDF] Scarlata
Science from IGM/CGM Emission Mapping [PDF] Schiminovich
Project Lyman: Quantifying 11 Gyrs of Metagalactic Ionizing Background Evolution [PDF] McCandliss
Synergistic Astrophysics in the Ultraviolet using Active Galactic Nuclei [PDF] Kriss
Active Galactic Nuclei and their role in Galaxy Formation and Evolution [PDF] Kraemer
UV Spectroscopic Time Domain Studies of Active Galactic Nuclei [PDF] Peterson
Extragalactic Lyman-alpha Experiments in the Nearby Universe [PDF] Hayes
Galaxy Assembly and SMBH/AGN-growth from Cosmic Dawn to the End of Reionization [PDF] Scowen
A UV/Optical/Near-IR Spectroscopic Sky Survey for Understanding Galaxy Evolution [PDF] Heap
An Optical and Ultraviolet Cosmological Mapper [PDF] Doré
Exoplanet Science of Nearby Stars on a UV/Visible Astrophysics Mission [PDF] Noecker
Ultraviolet imaging of exoplanets [PDF] Cook
From Protoplanetary Disks to Extrasolar Planets: Understanding the Life Cycle of Circumstellar Gas with Ultraviolet Spectroscopy [PDF] France
Solar System Science Objectives with the Next UV/Optical Space Observatory [PDF] Wong
Science Drivers for a Wide-Field, High-Resolution Imaging Space Telescope Operating at UV/Blue Optical Wavelengths [PDF] Côté
Unique Astrophysics in the Lyman Ultraviolet [PDF] Tumlinson
White Paper In Response To NSPIRES RFI For The Next Generation Space UV-Vis Space Observatory (NG-SUVO) [PDF] Ulmer
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