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Building galaxies, stars, planets and the ingredients for life between the stars. The science behind the European Ultraviolet-Visible Observatory

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This contribution gathers the contents of the white paper submitted by the UV community to the Call issued by the European Space Agency in March 2013, for the definition of the L2 and L3 missions in the ESA science program. We outlined the key science that a large UV facility would make possible and the instrumentation to be implemented.

The growth of luminous structures and the building blocks of life in the Universe began as primordial gas was processed in stars and mixed at galactic scales. The mechanisms responsible for this development are not well-understood and have changed over the intervening 13 billion years. To follow the evolution of matter over cosmic time, it is necessary to study the strongest (resonance) transitions of the most abundant species in the Universe. Most of them are in the ultraviolet (UV; 950 Å–3000 Å) spectral range that is unobservable from the ground. A versatile space observatory with UV sensitivity a factor of 50–100 greater than existing facilities will revolutionize our understanding of the Universe.

Habitable planets grow in protostellar discs under ultraviolet irradiation, a by-product of the star-disk interaction that drives the physical and chemical evolution of discs and young planetary systems. The electronic transitions of the most abundant molecules are pumped by this UV field, providing unique diagnostics of the planet-forming environment that cannot be accessed from the ground. Earth’s atmosphere is in constant interaction with the interplanetary medium and the solar UV radiation field. A 50–100 times improvement in sensitivity would enable the observation of the key atmospheric ingredients of Earth-like exoplanets (carbon, oxygen, ozone), provide crucial input for models of biologically active worlds outside the solar system, and provide the phenomenological baseline to understand the Earth atmosphere in context.

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  1. Crip 2013: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/vexag/meetings/ComparativeClimatology/.

  2. See http://sci.esa.int/cosmic-vision/46510-cosmic-vision/.

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We thank the 336 scientists who supported this proposal. The details on the proposal and the names of all of the supporters are available in the website of the Network for UltraViolet Astronomy (NUVA): http://www.nuva.eu. Ana I. Gómez de Castro and Javier López-Santiago acknowledge the support from the MINECO through grant: AYA2011-29754-C03-01.

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  1. AEGORA Research Team, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Ana I. Gómez de Castro & Javier López-Santiago

  2. Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, Paris, France

    Thierry Appourchaux & Frederic Baudin

  3. University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

    Martin A. Barstow, Emma Bunce, Jon Lapington & Jonathan Nichols

  4. Institut de Planetologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France

    Mathieu Barthelemy

  5. Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Padova, Italy

    Stefano Benetti & Marina Orio

  6. Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Pere Blay

  7. Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Noah Brosch

  8. INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Napoli, Italy

    Domitilla de Martino

  9. Observatoire Astronomique Marseille-Provence, Marseille, France

    Jean-Michel Deharveng, Cecile Gry, Bruno Milliard & Céline Peroux

  10. Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, Paris, France

    Roger Ferlet & Alain Lecavelier des Etangs

  11. University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

    Kevin France

  12. Instituto Astrofísico de Canarias, La Laguna, Spain

    Miriam García

  13. University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

    Boris Gänsicke

  14. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA

    Lynne Hillenbrand

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    Eric Josselin

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    Carolina Kehrig & José Vilchez

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  18. Observatoire Paris-Meudon, Paris, France

    Frank LePetit

  19. Université de Nice, Nice, France

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  20. University of Padova, Padova, Italy

    Giampiero Naletto

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  25. Instit. Astr. Sede Ensenada, Universidad Nacional de Mexico, Mexico D.F., Mexico

    Gagik Tovmassian

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Gómez de Castro, A.I., Appourchaux, T., Barstow, M.A. et al. Building galaxies, stars, planets and the ingredients for life between the stars. The science behind the European Ultraviolet-Visible Observatory. Astrophys Space Sci 354, 229–246 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-014-1942-7

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