ATLAST: Documents and Publications

ATLAST

MISSION STUDIES

Scientific Articles

• ATLAST: Characterizing Habitable Worlds (Postman et al. 2009)
• The Future of Direct Supermassive Black Hole Mass Estimates (Batcheldor & Koekemoer 2009)

NASA RFI Response on Servicing Future Space Observatories (Jan 2010)

• Feasibility of Using Human Spaceflight or Robotic Missions for Servicing Existing and Future Spacecraft (Postman et al.)
• Servicing ATLAST (9.2m design) (Oegerle et al.)

AAS Meeting Posters

January 2010

• Science Cases for ATLAST (Postman et al.)
• Active Space Telescope Systems: A New Paradigm (Unwin et al.)
• A 16-m ATLAST Mission Design (Lillie et al.)
• An 8-m ATLAST Mission Design (Stahl et al.)
• An All-Reflective Integral Field Spectrograph for Far UV Astrophysics (Kendrick et al.) Powerpoint (1.6 MB)
• ATLAST 9.2: A Deployable Large Aperture UVOIR Space Telescope (Oegerle et al.) Powerpoint (1.8 MB)

January 2009

• The Science Case for an 8-m to 16-m ATLAS Telescope
• Wavefront Sensing & Control for a Large Segmented Space Telescope (D. Redding, et al.)
• Design of an 8-meter Monolithic UVOIR Space Telescope (Stahl et al.)
• Gigapixel Focal Plane Arrays for UVOIR Space Telescopes (Ebbets et al.)
• Conceptual Design for a 16-m Segmented UVOIR Space Telescope (Korechoff et al.)
• Evaluation of Internal Coronagraph Techniques for a Segmented Space Telescope (Krist et al.)

October 2008 "Future of UV Astronomy" Workshop (Annapolis)

Ultraviolet Astronomy Beyond 2020 (M. Postman & M. Mountain)

SPIE Meeting Papers

June 2010

• Science drivers and requirements for an Advanced Technology Large Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST):Implications for technology development and synergies with other future facilities (Postman et al.)

June 2008

• Science with an 8-m to 16-m ATLAS Telescope (Postman et al.)
• Active Optics for a 16-meter ATLAS Telescope (Redding et al.)
• Design Study for an 8-m monolithic mirror ATLAS Telescope (Stahl)

October 2007 Submitted NASA ASMC Proposal

• Submitted Proposal to NASA's Astrophysics Strategic Mission Concept Study NRA

Focal Plane Layout for 8-m concept
(similar to that for 16-m except that 8-m layout covers twice the angular scale)

• 8m focal plane layout

Deployment Sequence for a 16-meter segmented telescope:

• 16m observatory deployment animation (.wmv format)
• 16m observatory deployment animation (.mov format)

ATLAST Reports and News

NCR Reports Related to ATLAST

• Launching Science: Science Opportunities Provided by NASA's Constellation System

ATLAST in the News

• Jan 2009: NASA Press Release on Ares V Science Payload Capabilties
• Apr 2009: Astronomy Magazine Article
• Apr 2010: Bigger, Better Space Telescopes to Eclipse Hubble

Other Large Space Telescope Concept Studies

• European Ultraviolet Visible Observatory (EUVO) - 8m class telescope [2013]
• 20-m Modular Assembled Space Telescope (Feinberg et al.) [2013]
• 30-m Assembled Space Telescope (Oegerle et al.) [2007]
• Modern Universe Space Telescope (MUST) - 10m class telescope [2005]
• Space UV - Optical Telescope (SUVO) - 4m class telescope [1999]

ATLAST flies on STS-125: Certificate of Authenticity