[3.11] The IGM Explorer: A Midex Mission for Studying the Galaxy IGM Connection

AAS 203rd Meeting, January 2004
Session 3 Space Missions: Planet Finding, Astrobiology and Others
Poster, Monday, January 5, 2004, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

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[3.11] The IGM Explorer: A Midex Mission for Studying the Galaxy IGM Connection

J. C. Green (CASA, U. Boulder)

The IGM Explorer is a MIDEX class mission being developed for the next MIDEX opportunity in 2004. It will provide spectroscopy and imaging in the 900- 1200 angstrom region of the spectrum with greater than 10 X the sensitivity of FUSE. Using a novel grating fabrication process, a low-cost grazing incidence telescope can be incorporated in the design, allowing a high efficiency system with minimal aberrations. Narrow band imaging at O VI 1032 as well as broad band FUV imaging will also be available. This will allow the study of the cosmic web/galaxy interface through emission and absorption, and unravel the feedback and galactic formation processes that are essential to developing a complete model of the evolution of structure in the universe.

The author(s) of this abstract have provided an email address for comments about the abstract: jgreen@casa.colorado.edu

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