The HST Ultraviolet Legacy Initiative for Star Formation and related Stellar Astrophysics
STScI Director Kenneth Sembach has decided to devote 600-1000 orbits of Director's Discretionary time in observing Cycles 27-28 to a new Hubble Ultraviolet Legacy Initiative focused on star formation and associated stellar astrophysics. The program will produce a publicly accessible, non-proprietary, legacy dataset that follows in the footsteps of the Hubble Frontier Fields Initiative.
A working group has been formed to engage with the scientific community and make recommendations to the Director for the scientific program [charter]. The HSTUV WG is now seeking community input to shape the science priorities and strategy. We are particularly interested in service programs that provide reference data sets less likely to be generated through GO time. The final program may consist of both imaging and spectroscopy, and may be constructed from a variety of suggestions, based on community interest. Two example programs are given below to illustrate the scope of this initiative. Others might include a deep, UV atlas of nearby galaxies, or mapping of a prototypical Galactic star-forming region.
A. UV spectral atlas of massive stars at low metallicity [example1] B. UV imaging survey of massive star clusters and starbursts [example2]
We would value your reaction and input by December 7, 2018 for developing this initiative: