The World Space Observatory-Ultraviolet (WSO-UV) will provide access to the UV range during the next decade. The instrumentation on board will allow to carry out high resolution imaging, high sensitivity imaging, high resolution (R~55000) spectroscopy and low resolution (R~2500) long slit spectroscopy. In this contribution, we briefly outline some of the key science issues that WSO-UV will address during its lifetime. Among them, of special interest are: the study of galaxy formation and the intergalactic medium; the astronomical engines; the Milky Way formation and evol ution, and the formation of the Solar System and the atmospheres of extrasolar p lanets.
@article{arxiv.0811.0316,
title = {Science with the World Space Observatory - Ultraviolet},
author = {Ana I. Gomez de Castro and Isabella Pagano and Mikhail Sachkov and Alain Lecavelier and Giampaolo Piotto and Rosa Gonzalez and Boris Shustov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.0316},
year = {2020}
}
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Just one text file (aigomezdecastro.tex). To be published in the proceeding of the conference: "New Quest in Stellar Astrophysics II: UV properties of evolved stellar populations" held in Puerto Vallarta - Mexico, in april 2007