After receiving many requests from the community, we have negotiated a deadline of 7 March 2025 with JATIS. We hope and expect to get your high-quality submissions soon and make the JATIS-UV a big success. Please see below for the original call and the new deadline.

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.

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 Author Guidelines.

Important Dates

Timeline:
Submissions deadline: 7 March 2025
Publication date: October – December 2025

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