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The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is the next flagship of NASA, planned to be launched in the 2040s. With a wavelength coverage from the ultraviolet to the near-infrared and a suite of multi-purpose instruments, this observatory will be a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. It will be the first space telescope designed specifically to directly characterize Earth-sized exoplanets within the habitable zones of nearby stars, but its capabilities will also enable transformational observations for general astrophysics. The telescope and instrument requirements are currently being developed and it is expected that Europe/ESA will contribute in some way to the HWO instrumentation. In this talk, we will discuss the route towards a Dutch science and technological contribution to HWO.
| Talk category | Instrumentation (contact wijnen@strw.leidenuniv.nl) |
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| Preference for a talk or poster | Talk |
