TY - JOUR
T1 - Space Project for Astrophysical and Cosmological Exploration ( SPACE ), an ESA stand-alone mission and a possible contribution to the Origins Space Telescope
AU - Burgarella, Denis
AU - Bunker, Andrew
AU - Bouwens, Rychard
AU - Pagani, Laurent
AU - Afonso, Jose
AU - Atek, Hakim
AU - Audard, Marc
AU - Cabrit, Sylvie
AU - Caputi, Karina
AU - Ciesla, Laure
AU - Conselice, Christopher
AU - Cooray, Asantha
AU - Cresci, Giovanni
AU - Curti, Mirko
AU - Espinosa, José Miguel Rodríguez
AU - Ferrari, Marc
AU - Kobayashi, Chiaki
AU - Lagarde, Nadège
AU - Maestro, Jesus Gallego
AU - Maiolino, Roberto
AU - Malek, Katarzyna
AU - Mannucci, Filippo
AU - Montillaud, Julien
AU - Oesch, Pascal
AU - Pearson, Chris
AU - Pollo, Agnieszka
AU - Reylé, Céline
AU - Rosario, David
AU - Sakon, Itsuki
AU - Schaerer, Daniel
AU - Sharples, Ray
AU - Sobral, David
AU - Zamkotsian, Frédéric
N1 - © The Author(s) 2021. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
PY - 2021/7/18
Y1 - 2021/7/18
N2 - We propose a new mission called Space Project for Astrophysical and Cosmological Exploration (SPACE) as part of the ESA long term planning Voyage 2050 programme. SPACE will study galaxy evolution at the earliest times, with the key goals of charting the formation of the heavy elements, measuring the evolution of the galaxy luminosity function, tracing the build-up of stellar mass in galaxies over cosmic time, and finding the first super-massive black holes (SMBHs) to form. The mission will exploit a unique region of the parameter space, between the narrow ultra-deep surveys with HST and JWST, and shallow wide-field surveys such as the Roman Space Telescope and EUCLID, and should yield by far the largest sample of any current or planned mission of very high redshift galaxies at z > 10 which are sufficiently bright for detailed follow-up spectroscopy. Crucially, we propose a wide-field spectroscopic near-IR + mid-IR capability which will greatly enhance our understanding of the first galaxies by detecting and identifying a statistical sample of the first galaxies and the first supermassive black holes, and to chart the metal enrichment history of galaxies in the early Universe – potentially finding signatures of the very first stars to form from metal-free primordial gas. The wide-field and wavelength range of SPACE will also provide us a unique opportunity to study star formation by performing a wide survey of the Milky Way in the near-IR + mid-IR. This science project can be enabled either by a stand-alone ESA-led M mission or by an instrument for an L mission (with ESA and/or NASA, JAXA and other international space agencies) with a wide-field (sub-)millimetre capability at λ > 500 μm.
AB - We propose a new mission called Space Project for Astrophysical and Cosmological Exploration (SPACE) as part of the ESA long term planning Voyage 2050 programme. SPACE will study galaxy evolution at the earliest times, with the key goals of charting the formation of the heavy elements, measuring the evolution of the galaxy luminosity function, tracing the build-up of stellar mass in galaxies over cosmic time, and finding the first super-massive black holes (SMBHs) to form. The mission will exploit a unique region of the parameter space, between the narrow ultra-deep surveys with HST and JWST, and shallow wide-field surveys such as the Roman Space Telescope and EUCLID, and should yield by far the largest sample of any current or planned mission of very high redshift galaxies at z > 10 which are sufficiently bright for detailed follow-up spectroscopy. Crucially, we propose a wide-field spectroscopic near-IR + mid-IR capability which will greatly enhance our understanding of the first galaxies by detecting and identifying a statistical sample of the first galaxies and the first supermassive black holes, and to chart the metal enrichment history of galaxies in the early Universe – potentially finding signatures of the very first stars to form from metal-free primordial gas. The wide-field and wavelength range of SPACE will also provide us a unique opportunity to study star formation by performing a wide survey of the Milky Way in the near-IR + mid-IR. This science project can be enabled either by a stand-alone ESA-led M mission or by an instrument for an L mission (with ESA and/or NASA, JAXA and other international space agencies) with a wide-field (sub-)millimetre capability at λ > 500 μm.
KW - Original Article
KW - Extragalactic astrophysics
KW - Cosmology
KW - First stars
KW - First dust grains
KW - First galaxies
KW - Reionization
U2 - 10.1007/s10686-021-09703-1
DO - 10.1007/s10686-021-09703-1
M3 - Article
SN - 0922-6435
VL - 51
SP - 625
EP - 660
JO - Experimental Astronomy
JF - Experimental Astronomy
IS - 3
ER -