Leisawitz, David and Amatucci, Edward and Allen, Lynn and Arenberg, Jonathan and Armus, Lee and Battersby, Cara and Bauer, James and Bell, Ray and Benford, Dominic and Bergin, Edward and Booth, Jeffrey T. and Bradford, Charles M. and Bradley, Damon and Carey, Sean and Carter, Ruth and Cooray, Asantha and Corsetti, James and Dewell, Larry and DiPirro, Michael and Drake, Bret G. and East, Matthew and Ennico, Kimberly and Feller, Greg and Flores, Angel and Fortney, Jonathan and Granger, Zachary and Greene, Thomas P. and Howard, Joseph and Kataria, Tiffany and Knight, John S. and Lawrence, Charles and Lightsey, Paul and Mather, John C. and Meixner, Margaret and Melnick, Gary and McMurtry, Craig and Milam, Stefanie and Moseley, Samuel H. and Narayanan, Desika and Nordt, Alison and Padgett, Deborah and Pontoppidan, Klaus and Pope, Alexandra and Rafanelli, Gerard and Redding, David C. and Rieke, George and Roellig, Thomas and Sakon, Itsuki and Sandin, Carly and Sandstrom, Karin and Sengupta, Anita and Sheth, Kartik and Sokolsky, Lawrence M. and Staguhn, Johannes and Steeves, John and Stevenson, Kevin and Su, Kate and Vieira, Joaquin and Webster, Cassandra and Wiedner, Martina and Wright, Edward L. and Wu, Chi and Yanatsis, David and Zmuidzinas, Jonas (2021) Origins Space Telescope: trades and decisions leading to the baseline mission concept. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 7 (1). Art. No. 011014. ISSN 2329-4124. doi:10.1117/1.JATIS.7.1.011014. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20210504-082538165
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The Origins Space Telescope will trace the history of our origins from the time dust and heavy elements permanently altered the cosmic landscape to present-day life. How did galaxies evolve from the earliest galactic systems to those found in the universe today? How do habitable planets form? How common are life-bearing worlds? We describe how Origins was designed to answer these alluring questions. We discuss the key decisions taken by the Origins mission concept study team, the rationale for those choices, and how they led through an exploratory design process to the Origins baseline mission concept. To understand the concept solution space, we studied two distinct mission concepts and descoped the second concept, aiming to maximize science per dollar and hit a self-imposed cost target. We report on the study approach and describe the concept evolution. The resulting baseline design includes a 5.9-m diameter telescope cryocooled to 4.5 K and equipped with three scientific instruments. The chosen architecture is similar to that of the Spitzer Space Telescope and requires very few deployments after launch. The cryo-thermal system design leverages James Webb Space Telescope technology and experience.
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| Additional Information: | © 2021 The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. Distribution or reproduction of this work in whole or in part requires full attribution of the original publication, including its DOI. Paper 20074SS received Jun. 16, 2020; accepted for publication Feb. 16, 2021; published online Mar. 13, 2021. We took excerpts from the SPIE Proceedings paper “The Origins Space Telescope: mission concept overview,” in Proc. SPIE 10698-40 (2018) and from the Origins Space Telescope Mission Concept Study Final Report. The authors are grateful to the many institutions that sponsored and contributed to the successful Origins Space Telescope mission concept study. To enable the community to prepare for the 2020 Decadal Survey, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) sponsored studies of four large mission concepts, of which Origins was one. We thank NASA, for funding these studies. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) contributed substantial additional labor support, which enabled us to explore options, make well-informed engineering decisions, and develop an executable mission concept. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, the Canadian Space Agency, CSA, and a CNES-led European consortium actively participated in the study, with each contributing an instrument design and enabling their team members’ travel to study team meetings and concurrent engineering sessions. Domestic study participants included many academic institutions, several NASA centers (Ames Research Center and Marshall Space Flight Center, as well as GSFC), the Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and industry (Ball Aerospace, Northrop-Grumman, Lockheed-Martin, and L3 Harris), as reflected in the authors’ affiliations. The authors wish to express their deep gratitude to the hundreds of community members worldwide who contributed to the Origins mission concept study by sharing their thoughts on science priorities, reviewing the science case and engineering designs, developing graphics, formatting reports, taking notes, managing study resources, and making travel arrangements. It took a village. Last, but not least, we thank three JATIS reviewers, whose feedback on the original manuscript led to substantial improvements. | ||||||||||||||
| Group: | Astronomy Department, Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) | ||||||||||||||
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| Subject Keywords: | infrared; space telescope; cryogenic; spectroscopy; mission concept development | ||||||||||||||
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| DOI: | 10.1117/1.JATIS.7.1.011014 | ||||||||||||||
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| Official Citation: | David Leisawitz, Edward Amatucci, Lynn Allen, Jonathan Arenberg, Lee Armus, Cara Battersby, James Bauer, Ray Bell, Dominic Benford, Edwin Bergin, Jeffrey T. Booth, Charles M. Bradford, Damon Bradley, Sean Carey, Ruth Carter, Asantha Cooray, James Corsetti, Larry Dewell, Michael DiPirro, Bret G. Drake, Matthew East, Kimberly Ennico, Greg Feller, Angel Flores, Jonathan Fortney, Zachary Granger, Thomas P. Greene, Joseph Howard, Tiffany Kataria, John S. Knight, Charles Lawrence, Paul Lightsey, John C. Mather, Margaret Meixner, Gary Melnick, Craig McMurtry, Stefanie Milam, Samuel H. Moseley, Desika Narayanan, Alison Nordt, Deborah Padgett, Klaus Pontoppidan, Alexandra Pope, Gerard Rafanelli, David C. Redding, George Rieke, Thomas Roellig, Itsuki Sakon, Carly Sandin, Karin Sandstrom, Anita Sengupta, Kartik Sheth, Lawrence M. Sokolsky, Johannes Staguhn, John Steeves, Kevin Stevenson, Kate Su, Joaquin Vieira, Cassandra Webster, Martina Wiedner, Edward L. Wright, Chi Wu, David Yanatsis, Jonas Zmuidzinas, and the Origins Space Telescope Mission Concept Study Team "Origins Space Telescope: trades and decisions leading to the baseline mission concept," Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 7(1), 011014 (13 March 2021). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.7.1.011014 | ||||||||||||||
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| Deposited By: | Tony Diaz | ||||||||||||||
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