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most citedThe Cosmic Origins Spectrograph

491 citations · 8.8k across the 240 of their papers we have counts for

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245 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

An Ultraviolet Instrument on the Habitable Worlds Observatory: Considerations and Capability Trades on the Multi-Object, Integral-field, and High-resolution modes of a potential UVI

Brian Fleming, Kevin France, Dmitry Vorobiev +4

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is NASA's next-generation astrophysics platform, delivering transformative capability in the search for life and study of the origins of the…

astro-ph.SR2026

Frequent X-class Far UV Flares from a Young Solar Analog DS Tucanae A

Tristen Sextro, Kevin France, Vladimir Airapetian +4

The young solar analog DS Tuc A (~45 million years old, spectral type G6V) serves as an excellent proxy to the Sun during early stages of the Earth's evolution. The young Sun's enh…

astro-ph.IM2026

The future of high-resolution UV spectroscopy: Science with a UV Échelle spectrograph on the Habitable Worlds Observatory, or a dedicated mission

Annalisa De Cia, David Cont, Kevin Heng +39

High-resolution UV spectroscopy serves a diversity of science cases, from small bodies to planets, stars, and galaxies, but is currently limited to the Hubble Space Telescope and b…

astro-ph.IM2026

Early Exploration of the Scientific Discovery Space for the Habitable Worlds Observatory

Courtney D. Dressing, Danica Adams, Evelyne Alecian +324

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is a future NASA flagship mission concept identified by the Astro2020 Decadal Survey as the highest priority for large space missions. HWO sh…

astro-ph.IM2026

Optomechanical Design of the MANTIS SmallSat: An Extreme-, Far- and Near-Ultraviolet Spectrograph for Exoplanet Host Stars

Brian Fleming, Briana Indahl, Dmitry Vorobiev +16

The MANTIS (Monitoring Activity of Nearby sTars with uv Imaging and Spectroscopy) observatory is a compact, multi-instrument small satellite designed for simultaneous extreme- (EUV…

astro-ph.EP2026

The SPACE Program II: No discernible spectral features in the transmission spectrum of the sub-Neptune HD 191939 b observed with HST/WFC3

Cyril Gapp, Lorena Acuña-Aguirre, Reza Ashtari +17

The atmospheres of sub-Neptunes provide a window into their internal structure and history, shedding light on the origin of this common, but enigmatic, class of exoplanets. However…