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Large Mission Concept Studies White Papers

White Papers submitted to Cosmic Origins for the 2015 Large Mission Concept Study

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A FIR-Survey of TNOs and Related Bodies

Sep 15, 2025

PDF (155.59 KB)

Cryogenic Telescope for Far-Infrared Astrophysics: A Vision for NASA in the 2020 Decade

Sep 15, 2025

PDF (1.50 MB)

Imaging Polarimetry for ExoPlanet Science & Astrophysics

Sep 15, 2025

PDF (348.42 KB)

Dust in Distant Galaxies – Overcoming Confusion Noise with a 5m FIR Facility

Sep 15, 2025

PDF (502.20 KB)

Far-Infrared Spectral Line Studies of the Epoch of Reionization

Sep 15, 2025

PDF (140.23 KB)

A Joint Exoplanet & UVOIR Surveyor

Sep 15, 2025

PDF (68.46 KB)

The Earliest Epoch of Star-Formation in the Very Young Universe

Sep 15, 2025

PDF (181.05 KB)

Characterizing the Habitable Zones of Exoplanetary Systems with a Large Ultraviolet/Visible/Near-IR Space Observatory

Sep 15, 2025

PDF (722.86 KB)

The Bulk Composition of Exo-Planets

Sep 15, 2025

PDF (155.15 KB)

Flagship Missions for the Decadal Review

Sep 15, 2025

PDF (13.53 KB)

Life Finder Telescope

Sep 15, 2025

PDF (1.02 MB)

Galaxy Evolution Spectroscopic Surveyor (GESS)

Sep 15, 2025

PDF (1.12 MB)

Precision Ages for Milky Way Star Clusters

Sep 15, 2025

PDF (1.47 MB)

Interferometry Concept for the Far-Infrared Surveyor

Sep 15, 2025

PDF (4.75 MB)

Importance of Design Reference Missions for Developing the Next Large Mission Concepts

Sep 15, 2025

PDF (135.94 KB)

An Evolvable Space Telescope for the Far Infrared Surveyor Mission

Sep 15, 2025

PDF (386.78 KB)

Exoplanet Environment Monitor

Sep 15, 2025

PDF (28.46 KB)

Definitive Determination of Galaxy Luminosity Functions at Energies Above the Hydrogen Ionization Edge, Covering 11 Billion Years of Evolution

Sep 15, 2025

PDF (252.24 KB)

Probing Transient Structures in the Universe

Sep 15, 2025

PDF (51.59 KB)

An Evolvable Space Telescope for Future UV/Opt/IR Astronomical Missions

Sep 15, 2025

PDF (278.86 KB)

A Rotating Synthetic Aperture (RSA) Space Telescope for Future UV/Opt/IR Astronomical Missions

Sep 15, 2025

PDF (230.13 KB)

UVOIR Surveyor: The Need for High Resolution, Wide Field, Deep Multi-wavelength Imaging and IFU Spectroscopy

Sep 15, 2025

PDF (83.30 KB)

Probe Class Missions in the Far Infrared

Sep 15, 2025

PDF (160.91 KB)

The First Stars and the First Metals

Sep 15, 2025

PDF (35.95 KB)

The Origin of the Elements Heavier than Iron

Sep 15, 2025

PDF (35.14 KB)

HabX2: a 2020 Mission Concept for Flagship Science at Modest Cost

Sep 15, 2025

PDF (91.11 KB)

Listening to the Cosmic Dawn

Sep 15, 2025

PDF (140.50 KB)

A Large-Aperture UVOIR Space Telescope

Sep 15, 2025

PDF (856.54 KB)

Galaxy Fueling and Quenching: A Science Case for Future UV MOS Capability

Sep 15, 2025

PDF (435.82 KB)

UV/Optical/IR Surveyor: The Crucial Role of High Spatial Resolution, High Sensitivity UV Observations to Galaxy Evolution Studies

Sep 15, 2025

PDF (65.48 KB)

COPAG Merged White Papers (Single Document)

Sep 15, 2025

PDF (6.72 MB)

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An illustration of Sun-like star HD 181327 and its surrounding debris disk. The star is at top right. It is surrounded by a far larger debris disk that forms an incomplete ellpitical path and is cut off at right. There’s a huge cavity between the star and the disk. The debris disk is shown in shades of light gray. Toward the top and left, there are finer, more discrete points in a range of sizes. The disk appears hazier and smokier at the bottom. The star is bright white at center, with a hazy blue region around it. The background of space is black. The label Artist's Concept appears at lower left.