The Detailed Science Case for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer, 2019 edition
Abstract
(Abridged) The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) is an end-to-end science platform for the design, execution and scientific exploitation of spectroscopic surveys. It will unveil the composition and dynamics of the faint Universe and impact nearly every field of astrophysics across all spatial scales, from individual stars to the largest scale structures in the Universe. Major pillars in the science program for MSE include (i) the ultimate Gaia follow-up facility for understanding the chemistry and dynamics of the distant Milky Way, including the outer disk and faint stellar halo at high spectral resolution (ii) galaxy formation and evolution at cosmic noon, via the type of revolutionary surveys that have occurred in the nearby Universe, but now conducted at the peak of the star formation history of the Universe (iii) derivation of the mass of the neutrino and insights into inflationary physics through a cosmological redshift survey that probes a large volume of the Universe with a high galaxy density. MSE is positioned to become a critical hub in the emerging international network of front-line astronomical facilities, with scientific capabilities that naturally complement and extend the scientific power of Gaia, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the Square Kilometer Array, Euclid, WFIRST, the 30m telescopes and many more.
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@article{arxiv.1904.04907,
title = {The Detailed Science Case for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer, 2019 edition},
author = {The MSE Science Team and Carine Babusiaux and Maria Bergemann and Adam Burgasser and Sara Ellison and Daryl Haggard and Daniel Huber and Manoj Kaplinghat and Ting Li and Jennifer Marshall and Sarah Martell and Alan McConnachie and Will Percival and Aaron Robotham and Yue Shen and Sivarani Thirupathi and Kim-Vy Tran and Christophe Yeche and David Yong and Vardan Adibekyan and Victor Silva Aguirre and George Angelou and Martin Asplund and Michael Balogh and Projjwal Banerjee and Michele Bannister and Daniela Barría and Giuseppina Battaglia and Amelia Bayo and Keith Bechtol and Paul G. Beck and Timothy C. Beers and Earl P. Bellinger and Trystyn Berg and Joachim M. Bestenlehner and Maciej Bilicki and Bertram Bitsch and Joss Bland-Hawthorn and Adam S. Bolton and Alessandro Boselli and Jo Bovy and Angela Bragaglia and Derek Buzasi and Elisabetta Caffau and Jan Cami and Timothy Carleton and Luca Casagrande and Santi Cassisi and Márcio Catelan and Chihway Chang and Luca Cortese and Ivana Damjanov and Luke J. M. Davies and Richard de Grijs and Gisella de Rosa and Alis Deason and Paola di Matteo and Alex Drlica-Wagner and Denis Erkal and Ana Escorza and Laura Ferrarese and Scott W. Fleming and Andreu Font-Ribera and Ken Freeman and Boris T. Gänsicke and Maksim Gabdeev and Sarah Gallagher and Davide Gandolfi and Rafael A. García and Patrick Gaulme and Marla Geha and Mario Gennaro and Mark Gieles and Karoline Gilbert and Yjan Gordon and Aruna Goswami and Johnny P. Greco and Carl Grillmair and Guillaume Guiglion and Vincent Hénault-Brunet and Patrick Hall and Gerald Handler and Terese Hansen and Nimish Hathi and Despina Hatzidimitriou and Misha Haywood and Juan V. Hernández Santisteban and Lynne Hillenbrand and Andrew M. Hopkins and Cullan Howlett and Michael J. Hudson and Rodrigo Ibata and Dragana Ilić and Pascale Jablonka and Alexander Ji and Linhua Jiang and Stephanie Juneau and Amanda Karakas and Drisya Karinkuzhi and Stacy Y. Kim and Xu Kong and Iraklis Konstantopoulos and Jens-Kristian Krogager and Claudia Lagos and Rosine Lallement and Chervin Laporte and Yveline Lebreton and Khee-Gan Lee and Geraint F. Lewis and Sophia Lianou and Xin Liu and Nicolas Lodieu and Jon Loveday and Szabolcs Mészáros and Martin Makler and Yao-Yuan Mao and Danilo Marchesini and Nicolas Martin and Mario Mateo and Carl Melis and Thibault Merle and Andrea Miglio and Faizan Gohar Mohammad and Karan Molaverdikhani and Richard Monier and Thierry Morel and Benoit Mosser and David Nataf and Lina Necib and Hilding R. Neilson and Jeffrey A. Newman and A. M. Nierenberg and Brian Nord and Pasquier Noterdaeme and Chris O'Dea and Mahmoudreza Oshagh and Andrew B. Pace and Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille and Gajendra Pandey and Laura C. Parker and Marcel S. Pawlowski and Annika H. G. Peter and Patrick Petitjean and Andreea Petric and Vinicius Placco and Luka Č. Popović and Adrian M. Price-Whelan and Andrej Prsa and Swara Ravindranath and R. Michael Rich and John Ruan and Jan Rybizki and Charli Sakari and Robyn E. Sanderson and Ricardo Schiavon and Carlo Schimd and Aldo Serenelli and Arnaud Siebert and Malgorzata Siudek and Rodolfo Smiljanic and Daniel Smith and Jennifer Sobeck and Else Starkenburg and Dennis Stello and Gyula M. Szabó and Robert Szabo and Matthew A. Taylor and Karun Thanjavur and Guillaume Thomas and Erik Tollerud and Silvia Toonen and Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay and Laurence Tresse and Maria Tsantaki and Marica Valentini and Sophie Van Eck and Andrei Variu and Kim Venn and Eva Villaver and Matthew G. Walker and Yiping Wang and Yuting Wang and Michael J. Wilson and Nicolas Wright and Siyi Xu and Mutlu Yildiz and Huawei Zhang and Konstanze Zwintz and Borja Anguiano and Megan Bedell and William Chaplin and Remo Collet and Jean-Charles Cuillandre and Pierre-Alain Duc and Nicolas Flagey and JJ Hermes and Alexis Hill and Devika Kamath and Mary Beth Laychak and Katarzyna Małek and Mark Marley and Andy Sheinis and Doug Simons and Sérgio G. Sousa and Kei Szeto and Yuan-Sen Ting and Simona Vegetti and Lisa Wells and Ferdinand Babas and Steve Bauman and Alessandro Bosselli and Pat Côté and Matthew Colless and Johan Comparat and Helene Courtois and David Crampton and Scott Croom and Luke Davies and Richard de Grijs and Kelly Denny and Daniel Devost and Paola di Matteo and Simon Driver and Mirian Fernandez-Lorenzo and Raja Guhathakurta and Zhanwen Han and Clare Higgs and Vanessa Hill and Kevin Ho and Andrew Hopkins and Mike Hudson and Rodrigo Ibata and Sidik Isani and Matt Jarvis and Andrew Johnson and Eric Jullo and Nick Kaiser and Jean-Paul Kneib and Jun Koda and George Koshy and Shan Mignot and Rick Murowinski and Jeff Newman and Adi Nusser and Anna Pancoast and Eric Peng and Celine Peroux and Christophe Pichon and Bianca Poggianti and Johan Richard and Derrick Salmon and Arnaud Seibert and Prajval Shastri and Dan Smith and Firoza Sutaria and Charling Tao and Edwar Taylor and Brent Tully and Ludovic van Waerbeke and Tom Vermeulen and Matthew Walker and Jon Willis and Chris Willot and Kanoa Withington},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.04907},
year = {2019}
}
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9 chapters, 301 pages, 100 figures. This version of the DSC is a comprehensive update of the original version, released in 2016, which can be downloaded at arXiv:1606.00043. A detailed summary of the design of MSE is available in the MSE Book 2018, available at arXiv:1810.08695