Ultraviolet Science & Instrumentation: On the Way to Habitable Worlds Observatory and Beyond

Dear UV Science and Instrumentation Workshop Participants,

We are excited to announce the call for papers for the approved special issue on the Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS) on ULTRAVIOLET SCIENCE & INSTRUMENTATION: ON THE WAY TO HABITABLE WORLDS OBSERVATORY AND BEYOND

Important Dates

Timeline:

Submissions deadline: 1 November 2024
Final acceptance deadline: 1 April 2025
Publication date: April – June 2025

This special section of JATIS focuses on addressing the opportunities and challenges involved in doing science through ultraviolet observation, the gaps and capabilities of ultraviolet instrumentation and technologies, and the mission concepts necessary for achieving science objectives, in a variety of platforms, from CubeSats to the next astrophysics flagship: the Habitable Worlds Observatory.

Areas of interest for this special section include:

• Enabling technologies (detectors, reflective coatings, gratings, filters, µ-shutters, etc.)
• Modeling, simulations, and data analysis techniques and results
• UV instrumentation, including reviews* (see note below)
• UV science cases for HWO and other classes of missions** (see note below)
• Mission concepts: all classes and in all stages of development and deployment

This call is open to all members of the community as well as all workshop participants including those who did not present their work at the workshop. Please submit your contributions and please share this information with others who might be interested in this topic.

The call has been posted on the JATIS website

For formatting and submission guidelines, please see the Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems

*Per journal guidelines, review papers must be coordinated with the JATIS editorial board ahead of submission. Please email jatis@spie.org to coordinate ideas for review papers for this special section with Megan Eckart (editor in chief) and Shouleh Nikzad (JATIS associate editor and lead guest editor for the special section).

**Manuscripts focused on science should discuss the science cases in the context of mission capabilities, requirements, or trade studies, to ensure the paper is of interest to the astronomical instrumentation community.

Special Section Editors

Shouleh Nikzad
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
shouleh.nikzad@jpl.nasa.gov

Anahita Alavi
IPAC, USA
anahita@ipac.caltech.edu

Erika Hamden
University of Arizona, USA
hamden@arizona.edu

David Ardila
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
david.ardila@jpl.nasa.gov

Brad Cenko
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
brad.cenko@nasa.gov

We are looking forward to capturing the content of our very successful workshop and more in this JATIS special issue. If you have any questions please contact one of the Special Issue Guest Editors listed above. Thank you all again for your participation in the workshop and your contributions to the field. On behalf of the organizers of the Workshop UV Science and Instrumentation Workshop: On the Way to Habitable World and Beyond