Volume 23, Issue 1

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March 2009

ESA's Cosmic Vision 2007: Astrophysics Mission Proposals

Issue Editor:

Giovanni F. Bignami

20 articles in this issue

A vision for space science
Giovanni F. Bignami
Preface 16 January 2009 Pages: 1 - 3
B-Pol: detecting primordial gravitational waves generated during inflation
Paolo de Bernardis
Martin Bucher
For the B-Pol Collaboration
Original Article 28 August 2008 Pages: 5 - 16
The Dark UNiverse Explorer (DUNE): proposal to ESA’s cosmic vision
A. Refregier
The DUNE Collaboration
Original Article 25 July 2008 Pages: 17 - 37
SPACE: the spectroscopic all-sky cosmic explorer
A. Cimatti
M. Robberto
F. Zerbi
Original Article Open access 24 May 2008 Pages: 39 - 66
EDGE: Explorer of diffuse emission and gamma-ray burst explosions
L. Piro
J. W. den Herder
N. Yamasaki
Original Article 29 May 2008 Pages: 67 - 89
Gamma-ray burst investigation via polarimetry and spectroscopy (GRIPS)
J. Greiner
A. Iyudin
L. M. Zeleny
Original Article Open access 29 July 2008 Pages: 91 - 120
GRI: focusing on the evolving violent universe
Jürgen Knödlseder
Peter von Ballmoos
Cornelia Wunderer
Regular Article 06 September 2008 Pages: 121 - 138
XEUS: the physics of the hot evolving universe
Monique Arnaud
Xavier Barcons
Shuang Nan Zhang
Original Article 30 July 2008 Pages: 139 - 168
Stellar And Galactic Environment survey (SAGE)
M. A. Barstow
M. P. Kowalski
G. Del Zanna
Original Article 15 August 2008 Pages: 169 - 191
The space infrared telescope for cosmology and astrophysics: SPICA A joint mission between JAXA and ESA
Bruce Swinyard
Takao Nakagawa
Original Article 13 May 2008 Pages: 193 - 219
Millimetron—a large Russian-European submillimeter space observatory
Wolfgang Wild
Nikolay S. Kardashev
A. Räisänen
Original Article Open access 11 July 2008 Pages: 221 - 244
FIRI—A far-infrared interferometer
Frank P. Helmich
R. J. Ivison
Original Article 01 July 2008 Pages: 245 - 276
The molecular hydrogen explorer H2EX
F. Boulanger
J. P. Maillard
A. G. G. M. Tielens
Original Article Open access 16 July 2008 Pages: 277 - 302
Sample return of interstellar matter (SARIM)
Ralf Srama
Thomas Stephan
Hans-Peter Röser
Original Article Open access 03 May 2008 Pages: 303 - 328
PLATO: PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars
Claude Catala
The PLATO Consortium
Original Article 16 September 2008 Pages: 329 - 356
Super earth explorer: a coronagraphic off-axis space telescope
J. Schneider
A. Boccaletti
the SEE-COAST Team
Original Article 29 November 2008 Pages: 357 - 377
The fresnel interferometric imager
Laurent Koechlin
Denis Serre
Alfred Vidal-Madjar
Original Article 14 August 2008 Pages: 379 - 402
PEGASE, an infrared interferometer to study stellar environments and low mass companions around nearby stars
M. Ollivier
O. Absil
J. Surdej
Original Article 13 January 2009 Pages: 403 - 434
Darwin—an experimental astronomy mission to search for extrasolar planets
Charles S. Cockell
Tom Herbst
Pascale Bordé
Original Article Open access 10 September 2008 Pages: 435 - 461
Luciola hypertelescope space observatory: versatile, upgradable high-resolution imaging, from stars to deep-field cosmology
Antoine Labeyrie
Hervé Le Coroller
Kenneth G. Carpenter
Original Article 17 September 2008 Pages: 463 - 490

Volume 23, Issue 1

A vision for space science

B-Pol: detecting primordial gravitational waves generated during inflation

The Dark UNiverse Explorer (DUNE): proposal to ESA’s cosmic vision

SPACE: the spectroscopic all-sky cosmic explorer

EDGE: Explorer of diffuse emission and gamma-ray burst explosions

Gamma-ray burst investigation via polarimetry and spectroscopy (GRIPS)

GRI: focusing on the evolving violent universe

XEUS: the physics of the hot evolving universe

Stellar And Galactic Environment survey (SAGE)

The space infrared telescope for cosmology and astrophysics: SPICA A joint mission between JAXA and ESA

Millimetron—a large Russian-European submillimeter space observatory

FIRI—A far-infrared interferometer

The molecular hydrogen explorer H2EX

Sample return of interstellar matter (SARIM)

PLATO: PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars

Super earth explorer: a coronagraphic off-axis space telescope

The fresnel interferometric imager

PEGASE, an infrared interferometer to study stellar environments and low mass companions around nearby stars

Darwin—an experimental astronomy mission to search for extrasolar planets

Luciola hypertelescope space observatory: versatile, upgradable high-resolution imaging, from stars to deep-field cosmology

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