Origins Space Telescope science drivers to design traceability

Creators: Meixner, Margaret; Cooray, Asantha; Leisawitz, David T.; Staguhn, Johannes G.; Armus, Lee; Battersby, Cara; Bauer, James; Benford, Dominic; Bergin, Edwin; Bradford, Charles Matt; Burgarella, Denis; Carey, Sean; De Beck, Elvire; Ennico-Smith, Kimberly; Fortney, Jonathan J.; Gerin, Maryvonne; Helmich, Frank P.; Kataria, Tiffany; Mamajek, Eric E.; Melnick, Gary J.; Milam, Stefanie N.; Moseley, Samuel Harvey; Narayanan, Desika; Neff, Susan G.; Padgett, Deborah; Pontoppidan, Klaus; Pope, Alexandra; Roellig, Thomas L.; Sakon, Itsuki; Sandstrom, Karin; Scott, Douglas; Sheth, Kartik; Stevenson, Kevin B.; Su, Kate Y.; Vieira, Joaquin; Wiedner, Martina C.; Wright, Edward; Zmuidzinas, Jonas; Origins Study Team

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The Origins Space Telescope (Origins) concept is designed to investigate the creation and dispersal of elements essential to life, the formation of planetary systems, and the transport of water to habitable worlds and the atmospheres of exoplanets around nearby K- and M-dwarfs to identify potentially habitable—and even inhabited—worlds. These science priorities are aligned with NASA's three major astrophysics science goals: How does the Universe work? How did we get here? and Are we alone? We briefly describe the science case that arose from the astronomical community and the science traceability matrix for Origins. The science traceability matrix prescribes the design of Origins and demonstrates that it will address the key science questions motivated by the science case.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. Distribution or reproduction of this work in whole or in part requires full attribution of the original publication, including its DOI. Paper 20075SS received Jun. 14, 2020; accepted for publication Jan. 12, 2021; published online Feb. 27, 2021. The authors are grateful to the many institutions that sponsored and contributed to the successful Origins Space Telescope mission concept study. To enable the community to prepare for the 2020 Decadal Survey, NASA sponsored studies of four large mission concepts, of which Origins was one. We thank NASA for funding these studies. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) contributed substantial additional labor support, which enabled us to explore options, make well-informed engineering decisions, and develop an executable mission concept. The Japanese space agency, JAXA, and a CNES-led European consortium actively participated in the study, with each contributing an instrument design and enabling their team members' travel to study team meetings and concurrent engineering sessions. Domestic study participants included many academic institutions, several NASA centers (Ames Research Center and Marshall Space Flight Center, as well as GSFC), the Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and industry (Ball Aerospace, Northrop-Grumman, Lockheed-Martin, and L3 Harris), as reflected in the authors' affiliations. Finally, the authors wish to express their deep gratitude to the hundreds of community members worldwide who contributed to the Origins mission concept study by sharing their thoughts on science priorities, reviewing the science case and engineering designs, developing graphics, formatting reports, taking notes, managing study resources, and making travel arrangements. It took a village.

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