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New Frontiers for Massive Star Winds: Imaging and Spectroscopy with the James Webb Space TelescopeThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large, infrared-optimized space telescope scheduled for launch in 2013. JWST will find the first stars and galaxies that formed in the early universe, connecting the Big Bang to our own Milky Way galaxy. JWST will peer through dusty clouds to see stars forming planetary systems, connecting the Milky Way to our own Solar System. JWST's instruments are designed to work primarily in the infrared range of 1 - 28 microns, with some capability in the visible range. JWST will have a large mirror, 6.5 meters in diameter, and will be diffraction-limited at 2 microns (0.1 arcsec resolution). JWST will be placed in an L2 orbit about 1.5 million km from the Earth. The instruments will provide imaging, coronography, and multi-object and integral-field spectroscopy across the full 1 - 28 micron wavelength range. The breakthrough capabilities of JWST will enable new studies of massive star winds from the Milky Way to the early universe.
Document ID
20070022878
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Sonneborn, George
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
August 23, 2013
Publication Date
June 18, 2007
Subject Category
Astronomy
Meeting Information
Meeting: International Workshop on Clumping in Hot-Star Winds
Location: Potsdam
Country: Germany
Start Date: June 18, 2007
End Date: June 22, 2007
Sponsors: Potsdam Univ.
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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