The SALTUS Probe mission will provide a powerful far-infrared (far-IR) pointed space observatory to explore our cosmic origins and the possibility of life elsewhere. The observatory employs an innovative deployable 14-m aperture, with a sunshield that will radiatively cool the off-axis primary to <45K. This cooled primary reflector works in tandem with cryogenic coherent and incoherent instruments that span the 34 to 660 micron far-IR range at both high and moderate spectral resolutions.
@article{arxiv.2405.12829,
title = {Single Aperture Large Telescope for Universe Studies (SALTUS): Science Overview},
author = {Gordon Chin and Carrie M. Anderson and Jennifer Bergner and Nicolas Biver and Gordon L. Bjoraker and Thibault Cavalie and Michael DiSanti and Jian-Rong Gao and Paul Hartogh and Leon K. Harding and Qing Hu and Daewook Kim and Craig Kulesa and Gert de Lange and David T. Leisawitz and Rebecca C. Levy and Arthur Lichtenberger and Daniel P. Marronh and Joan Najita and Trent Newswander and George H. Rieke and Dimitra Rigopoulou and Peter Roefsema and Nathan X. Roth and Kamber Schwarz and Yancy Shirley and Justin Spilker and Antony A. Stark and Floris van der Tak and Yuzuru Takashima and Alexander Tielens and David J. Willner and Edward J. Wollack and Stephen Yates and Erick Young and Christopher K. Walker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.12829},
year = {2024}
}
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49 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables, submitted to SPIE JATIS