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The Next Generation: An 8-16 M Space Telescope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Garth D. Illingworth
Garth D. Illingworth*
Affiliation:
Lick Observatory/Board of Studies in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The Hubble Space Telescope is to be a long-lived observatory with wide-ranging spectroscopic and imaging capability in the UV and the visible, and in the near-IR as the second-generation instruments are implemented. HST will have a dramatic impact on our view of the universe. However, it is by no means premature to address the issue of its successor, even though HST has not yet been launched. We must look ahead with the realistic view that HST will degrade and will need to be replaced. The question that we must then address is:

What is the UV-Visible-IR Observatory that will follow HST?

I will make the case for this being an 8-16 m class telescope.

Type
Joint Discussions
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 8: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XXth General Assembly of the IAU, 1988 , 1989 , pp. 449 - 453
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1989

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