Abstract
AbstractWe are standing at the crossroads of powerful new facilities emerging in the next decade on the ground and in space like ELT, SKA, JWST, and Athena. Turning the narrative of the star formation potential of galaxies into a quantitative theory will provide answers to many outstanding questions in astrophysics, from the formation of planets to the evolution of galaxies and the origin of heavy elements. To achieve this goal, there is an urgent need for a dedicated space-borne, far-infrared spectroscopic facility capable of delivering, for the first time, large scale, high spectral resolution (velocity resolved) multiwavelength studies of the chemistry and dynamics of the ISM of our own Milky Way and nearby galaxies. The Far Infrared Spectroscopic Surveyor (FIRSS) fulfills these requirements and by exploiting the legacy of recent photometric surveys it seizes the opportunity to shed light on the fundamental building processes of our Universe.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Space and Planetary Science,Astronomy and Astrophysics
Reference130 articles.
1. Abdullah, A., et al.: ApJ 842, 4 (2017)
2. Acharya, N., Novoselov, E., Cherednichenko, S.: MgB2 HEB terahertz mixers: Diffusion- or phonon-cooled? Submitt IEEE T Thz Sci Techn (2019)
3. Amblard, A., Cooray, A., Serra, P., et al.: Nature 470, 510 (2011)
4. Baryshev, A.M., et al.: A&A 577, 129 (2015)
5. Bernasconi, P., Walker, C., Kulesa, C.: The GUSTO balloon mission. Cospar 42, 304 (2018)
Cited by
6 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献