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Closing remarks Roger Davies

Explore the vital statistics, scientific breakthroughs, and reasons behind the Hubble Space Telescope's success. A special thanks to the teams and individuals who made it possible!

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Closing remarks Roger Davies

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  1. Closing remarksRoger Davies

  2. Outline • HST: vital statistics • Scientific transformation • Why has Hubble been so successful? • Closing remarks

  3. Thanks! to Elena, Bob & Antonella and to the teams behind them! GMOS galaxy spectrum

  4. Thanks! Special Thanks to the ECF team for their dedicated effort to support slitless spectroscopy! Richard Hook Jeremy Walsh Jonas Haase HaraldKuntschnerPieroRosati Martin Kornmesser Martin Kummel Marco Lombardi Kim Nilsson Brit Sjoberg Felix Stoehr Michael Rosa Colleen Sharkey Nor Pirzkal* GMOS galaxy spectrum

  5. Edwin Hubble was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford where he read Law & Spanish! .

  6. Vital Statisticsas of last week! • Cost $18,000,000,000 and counting • 9,169 refereed papers • 326,138 citations • 16,051 proposals submitted via the TAC • 4,302 approved for Cycles 1 - 18. • ~ 3,600 FTEs of effort at STScI GMOS galaxy spectrum

  7. Scientifically HST has changed everything in astronomy. Prof. Danieli: `the most succesful enterprise in contemporary science’ GMOS galaxy spectrum

  8. Eris & Dysnomia Eris is ~5% larger and ~30% more massive than Pluto Altered our view of the physical content of the Solar System Brown et al.

  9. The imaging and composition of exoplanets NICMOS G141 & G206 Spectra of Exoplanet eclipse Swain, Tinetti et al. Nature GMOS galaxy spectrum

  10. Stellar evolution The triple main sequence in NGC 2808 Overabundances of helium (Y~0.30, Y~0.40) can reproduce the two bluest main sequences Piotto et al. 2007, ApJ, 661, L35 Astrometry!

  11. Stellar populations and star formation history • WPC-3 ultra-violet imaging capability GMOS galaxy spectrum

  12. NGC 4150 (S0 with residual SF)(Crockett et al. 2010) WFC3: F225W, F438W, F657N

  13. N4150: Merger-Induced Populations (Crockett et al. 2010) Stellar velocities 1Gyr population in the core, outer gas co-rotates, inner gas counter-rotates: core formation!! Stellar velocities Ionised gas velocities

  14. Supemassive black holes in galaxy nuclei FEEDBACK • WPC-3 ultra-violet imaging capability GMOS galaxy spectrum

  15. Dark Matter Gravitational lensing has proved to be a uniquely powerful method to probe the distribution of Dark Matter. Now we need a direct detection in the lab! (not HST’s problem) GMOS galaxy spectrum

  16. Dark Energy • HST will continue to be the primary tool for high z SNae • probes of dark energy. • Measuring H0 to ~ few % will tighten constraints on • cosmological concordance. • Measuring H0 to 1% could be revolutionary GMOS galaxy spectrum

  17. COS has unique ultra-violet spectroscopic capability

  18. The physical conditions and content of galaxy halos No longer limited to a few l-o-s to bright QSOs, we can now look at different types of galaxies & make the connection with galaxy evolution – in/outflows & feedback! GMOS galaxy spectrum

  19. The tomography of the cosmic web No longer limited to a few l-o-s to bright QSOs, we can now look where there are interesting features Wouldn’t John Huchra have been excited by this prospect! GMOS galaxy spectrum

  20. WFC3 grism capability GMOS galaxy spectrum

  21. WFC-3 and the most distant galaxies z = 7-8 galaxies WFC/IR vs. NICMOS GMOS galaxy spectrum

  22. WFC-3 and the most distant galaxies • z= 7-8 galaxies are: • Small • Blue – no dust • α =1.7 - low mass galaxies dominate • some stars formed z>10 • CANDELS & CLASH • to come GMOS galaxy spectrum

  23. Prof. Danieli: `the most successful enterprise in contemporary science’ Why has HST been sosuccessful? Well obviously because it does great science! GMOS galaxy spectrum

  24. Why has HST been so successful? Prof. Danieli: `the most successful enterprise in contemporary science’ HST accomplishments are more widely recognized among the public than: • the Human Genome project, • magnetic materials that make iPod’s possible, • cancer therapies WHY?: there wasn’t a fortune to be made GMOS galaxy spectrum

  25. Why has HST been so successful? Funding : It has been funded at a level that has enabled new instruments, refurbishment of the telescope infrastructure, and exploitation of the data............ even theory! GMOS galaxy spectrum

  26. Why has HST been so successful? Great Pictures: Science as Art GMOS galaxy spectrum

  27. Why has HST been so successful? It is unique & we prize access to it. Time allocation modes: Key projects GTO time GO programmes Snapshots, ToO Allocations to small & large programmes Treasury programmes Directors Discretionary Time Multi-Cycle Treasury programmes Plus conflict of interest protocols HST TAC is a exemplar of how to distribute a scarce and valuable resource GMOS galaxy spectrum

  28. Why has HST been so successful? It is unique and therefore used with almost every other facility. Chandra + Newton XMM Spitzer + Herschel Keck, VLT, Gemini, Subaru etc. eVLA, VLBA, etc. JCMT, PbB, soon ALMA Corot, Kepler GMOS galaxy spectrum

  29. Why has HST been so successful? There has been a HUGE effort at outreach & education GMOS galaxy spectrum

  30. Why has HST been so successful? It has captured the imagination of the media and the public because it has been a human drama : Challenger accident Spherical aberration COSTAR Columbia accident Refurbishment missions The astronauts are brave pioneers GMOS galaxy spectrum

  31. What do Bob Fosbury & HST have in common? GMOS galaxy spectrum

  32. Hubble gives us a unique new perspective on the Universe and our place in it. Earth as seen from Saturn by Cassini GMOS galaxy spectrum

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