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astro-ph.IM2026
Early Exploration of the Scientific Discovery Space for the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Courtney D. Dressing, Danica Adams, Evelyne Alecian +324
The paper summarizes 70 science cases for the proposed NASA Habitable Worlds Observatory, outlining the observational needs across four scientific pillars and detailing required ca…
astro-ph.GA2025
Spatially Resolving the Fundamental Elements of Reionization in Galaxies
Xinfeng Xu, Stephan McCandliss, Allison Strom +10
Cosmic reionization marks a critical epoch when the first galaxies ionized the intergalactic medium through the escape of Lyman continuum (LyC) radiation. Young, massive star clust…
astro-ph.GA2025
Identifying the contributors to cosmic reionization with the Habitable World Observatory: LyC escape calibration in faint galaxies
Annalisa Citro, Cody. A. Carr, Yumi Choi +9
Investigating how small-scale physical processes shape large-scale astrophysical phenomena is one of the key science themes of the Astro2020 decadal Survey. An example of this inte…