Cosmic Origins
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Cosmic Origins Program Analysis Group
Events: Meetings

243rd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society

New Orleans, Louisiana
7 – 11 January 2024



Ultraviolet Science and Technology Interest Group (UV STIG) / Mine the Gap

Afternoon Session

Tuesday, 9 January 2024
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, Room: R07
1:30pm – 3:30pm CT

Agenda
Time Topic Speakers
1:30pm – 1:40pm Advances in Diffraction Grating Fabrication for Space-UV Astrophysics [PDF] Keri Hoadley
1:40pm – 1:50pm Emerging Coating Technologies for Realizing High-Reflectance and Stable Mirror Coatings for Observations in the Far Ultraviolet [PDF] Manuel Quijada
1:50pm – 2:00pm UV Technology White Paper: Getting ready for the Habitable Worlds Observatory Sarah Tuttle
Session on UV Missions – Chair, Stephan McCandliss
2:00pm – 2:10pm The Extreme-UV Radiation Environments of Extrasolar Planets: The ESCAPE Small Explorer Mission [PDF] Kevin France
2:10pm – 2:20pm Massive Star Wind Variability in the Ultraviolet: Considerations for Optimal Mission Design [PDF] Alexandre David-Uraz
2:20pm – 2:30pm Star Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS) Shouleh Nikzad, Evgenya Shkolnik, & TEAM SPARCS
2:30pm – 2:40pm The Science Drivers and Broad-band Spectroscopic Capabilities of the UVSCOPE MIDEX Mission Concept [PDF] David Ardilla (for Evgenya Shkolnik)
2:40pm – 2:50pm POLSTAR [PDF] Paul Scowen
2:50pm – 3:00pm The Small NASA Optical Ultraviolet Telescope (SNOUT): A SmallSat mission concept to connect extreme UV stellar flare to exoplanetary atmospheres [PDF] Keri Hoadly
3:00pm – 3:10pm Efficient Spectral Multiplexing for the Habitable Worlds Observatory [PDF] Emily Witt, Brian Fleming, Kevin France, James Green, Briana Indahl, Maitland Bowen, Alex Haughton
3:10pm – 3:30pm Panel Discussion Paul Scowen, Kevin France, Alex David-Uraz, Jeff Linsky, Sarah Tuttle, Keri Hoadley

News
4 February 2025
Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) Seminar Series | February 12th, 2025 @ 1:00pm – 2:00pm ET / 10:00am – 11:00am PT
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30 January 2025
ROSES-24 Amendments to F.5 FINESST: SMD’s Graduate Student Research Opportunity
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Notice to Grant Awardees Regarding No-Cost Extensions
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ROSES-2024 Amendment 102: Due Date Delays for Several Astrophysics Programs
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DEADLINE EXTENDED: Ultraviolet Science & Instrumentation: On The Way To Habitable Worlds Observatory and Beyond (JATIS Special Issue) | March 7th , 2025
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