Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics; Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics; Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies; Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract :
[en] The investigation of the emergence of life is a major endeavour of science. Astronomy is contributing to it in three fundamental manners: (1) by measuring the chemical enrichment of the Universe, (2) by investigating planet formation and searching for exoplanets with signatures of life and, (3) by determining the abundance of aminoacids and the chemical routes to aminoacid and protein growth in astronomical bodies. This proposal deals with the first two. In the Voyage to 2050, the world-wide scientific community is getting equipped with large facilities for the investigation of the emergence of life in the Universe (i.e. VLT, JWST, ELT, GMT, TMT, ALMA, FAST, VLA, ATHENA, SKA) including the ESA's CHEOPS, PLATO and ARIEL missions. This white paper is a community effort to call for the development of a large ultraviolet optical observatory to gather fundamental data for this investigation that will not be accessible through other ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum. A versatile space observatory with UV sensitivity a factor of 50-100 greater than existing facilities will revolutionize our understanding of the pathway to life in the Universe. <P />
Disciplines :
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Gomez de Castro, Ana I.
Barstow, Martin A.
Baudin, Fréderic
Benetti, Stefano
Bouret, Jean Claude
Brosch, Noah
de Martino, Domitilla
del Zanna, Giulio
Evans, Chris
García, Miriam
Gaensicke, Boris
Kehrig, Carolina
Lapington, Jon
Lecavelier des Etangs, Alain
Naletto, Giampiero
Nazé, Yaël ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Groupe d'astrophysique des hautes énergies (GAPHE)
Neiner, Coralie
Nichols, Jonathan
Orio, Marina
Pagano, Isabella
Rauw, Grégor ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Groupe d'astrophysique des hautes énergies (GAPHE)
White Paper submitted to the European Space Agency call for Voyage 2050. This WP proposes the development of a European Ultraviolet Visible Observatory (EUVO) to study the origins of life and it is largely based in arXiv 1306.3358 (ApSS,354,229)
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