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NEW Telescopes ( N WNH E nabling W ide-Field)

NEW Telescopes ( N WNH E nabling W ide-Field). Michael Strauss (with thanks to David Spergel ). aka “ National Reconnaissance Office ” (NRO) Telescope. These telescopes are left-overs from an obselete DoD program of ~15 telescopes.

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NEW Telescopes ( N WNH E nabling W ide-Field)

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  1. NEW Telescopes(NWNH Enabling Wide-Field) • Michael Strauss • (with thanks to David Spergel) aka “National Reconnaissance Office” (NRO) Telescope

  2. These telescopes are left-overs from an obselete DoD program of ~15 telescopes.

  3. A team was assembled to put together a science case to use these telescopes in the WFIRST context. WFIRST: a wide-field NIR ~1.5m telescope

  4. This solid angle could potentially double!

  5. Open Questions • Faster and Better? YES; Cheaper? Probably not. But the political momentum is there! • Geosynchronous or L2? • What can we do without modifying the telescope? • Funding possibilities? Probably, better than before • What does this mean for LSST? IR complement likely producing data on comparable time-scale. Fantastic news for photo-zs and weak lensing. • Political question: who is responsible for reprocessing LSST + Euclid + NEW data?

  6. Scientific potential for science other than weak lensing is completely unexplored. Could exposures be divided to give an interesting cadence for variability? There are two such telescopes; what should the second telescope do (if funds available)? A coronagraph, perhaps? A UV imager? We can fantasize about transient follow-up; what would the ideal space-based instrument be?

  7. A Conference about the NRO/NEW Telescopes How should the astronomical community best use these telescopes? Princeton, September 4-6, 2012 http://www.princeton.edu/astro/news-events/public-events/new-telescope-meeting/

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