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ATLAS Probe: Breakthrough Science of Galaxy Evolution, Cosmology, Milky Way, and the Solar System

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Wang, Y; Dickinson, M; Hillenbrand, L; Robberto, M; Armus, L; Ballardini, M; Barkhouser, R; Bartlett, J; Behroozi, P; Benjamin, RA; Chary, R-R ...
August 30, 2019

ATLAS (Astrophysics Telescope for Large Area Spectroscopy) is a concept for a NASA probe-class space mission. It is the spectroscopic follow-up mission to WFIRST, boosting its scientific return by obtaining deep NIR & MIR slit spectroscopy for most of the galaxies imaged by the WFIRST High Latitude Survey at z>0.5. ATLAS will measure accurate and precise redshifts for ~200M galaxies out to z=7 and beyond, and deliver spectra that enable a wide range of diagnostic studies of the physical properties of galaxies over most of cosmic history. ATLAS and WFIRST together will produce a definitive 3D map of the Universe over 2000 sq deg. ATLAS Science Goals are: (1) Discover how galaxies have evolved in the cosmic web of dark matter from cosmic dawn through the peak era of galaxy assembly. (2) Discover the nature of cosmic acceleration. (3) Probe the Milky Way's dust-enshrouded regions, reaching the far side of our Galaxy. (4) Discover the bulk compositional building blocks of planetesimals formed in the outer Solar System. These flow down to the ATLAS Scientific Objectives: (1A) Trace the relation between galaxies and dark matter with less than 10% shot noise on relevant scales at 1

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Wang, Y., Dickinson, M., Hillenbrand, L., Robberto, M., Armus, L., Ballardini, M., … Wechsler, R. H. (2019). ATLAS Probe: Breakthrough Science of Galaxy Evolution, Cosmology, Milky Way, and the Solar System.
Wang, Yun, Mark Dickinson, Lynne Hillenbrand, Massimo Robberto, Lee Armus, Mario Ballardini, Robert Barkhouser, et al. “ATLAS Probe: Breakthrough Science of Galaxy Evolution, Cosmology, Milky Way, and the Solar System,” August 30, 2019.
Wang Y, Dickinson M, Hillenbrand L, Robberto M, Armus L, Ballardini M, et al. ATLAS Probe: Breakthrough Science of Galaxy Evolution, Cosmology, Milky Way, and the Solar System. 2019 Aug 30;
Wang Y, Dickinson M, Hillenbrand L, Robberto M, Armus L, Ballardini M, Barkhouser R, Bartlett J, Behroozi P, Benjamin RA, Brinchmann J, Chary R-R, Chuang C-H, Cimatti A, Conroy C, Content R, Daddi E, Donahue M, Dore O, Eisenhardt P, Ferguson HC, Faisst A, Fraser WC, Glazebrook K, Gorjian V, Helou G, Hirata CM, Hudson M, Kirkpatrick JD, Malhotra S, Mei S, Moscardini L, Newman JA, Ninkov Z, Orsi A, Ressler M, Rhoads J, Rhodes J, Ryan R, Samushia L, Scarlata C, Scolnic D, Seiffert M, Shapley A, Smee S, Valentino F, Vorobiev D, Wechsler RH. ATLAS Probe: Breakthrough Science of Galaxy Evolution, Cosmology, Milky Way, and the Solar System. 2019 Aug 30;

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August 30, 2019