The EXES instrument onboard SOFIA (4.5 – 28.3 μm, R=5000-100000) typically operates during ~ 20 flights per observing cycle, all departing from the NASA Palmdale base. These flights can access a large section of the observing sky, but cannot reach regions with declinations below -36 degrees (and in practice, below -24 degrees for faint sources), which require flights departing from a Southern hemisphere base. For example, a project geared towards trying to study water towards Ophiuchus or anything targeting the Galactic Center.
The SOFIA Science Center is soliciting input from the astrophysics community at large to evaluate the potential scientific impact unlocked of Southern observations with EXES in the next few years. In particular, we want to understand which EXES data from Southern sources could leverage the interpretation of MIRI/Webb observations (which cover the same wavelength range with lower spectral resolution), and complement atmosphere-impacted TEXES and CRIRES observations. This 1.5 h webinar is an opportunity for anyone to present ideas about high-impact EXES observations of Southern sources, which will be used as inputs to the development of a long-term Southern deployment strategy, supporting Cycle 10 and beyond.
| First Name | Last Name | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| B-G | Andersson | SOFIA Science Center |
| Peter | Barnes | Space Science Institute |
| Salma | Bejaoui | NASA Ames research center |
| Lars | Bonne | SOFIA Science Center, USRA |
| Laure | Bouscasse | MPIfR |
| Christine | Chen | STScI |
| Curtis | DeWitt | USRA/SOFIA |
| Jochen | Eislöffel | Thüringer Landessternwarte, Tautenburg, Germany |
| José Pablo | Fonfría | IFF-CSIC |
| Guido | Fuchs | University Kassel |
| Thomas | Greathouse | Southwest Research Institute |
| Thomas | Greene | NASA Ames Research Center |
| Graham | Harper | Center for Astrophysics and Space Science, CU Boulder |
| Nick | Indriolo | Space Telescope Science Institute |
| James | Jackson | USRA/SOFIA |
| Olivia | Jones | Uk ATC |
| Ulli | Kaeufl | ex ESO |
| Janik | Karoly | University of Central Lancashire |
| Kathleen | Kraemer | Boston College |
| Lerothodi | Leeuw | University of the Western Cape |
| Maggie | McAdam | NASA ARC |
| Margaret | Meixner | SOFIA/USRA |
| Edward | Montiel | USRA/SOFIA |
| Arielle | Moullet | SOFIA/USRA |
| Isha | Nayak | Space Telescope Science Institute |
| David | Neufeld | Johns Hopkins University |
| Sarah | Nickerson | BAERI/NASA Ames |
| Yvonne | Pendleton | NASA Ames Research Center |
| Naseem | Rangwala | NASA Ames |
| Maisie | Rashman | UC Davis |
| William | Reach | USRA/SOFIA |
| Matt | Richter | UC Davis |
| Tom | Roellig | NASA Ames Research Center |
| Hideo | Sagawa | Kyoto Sangyo University |
| James | Sinclair | Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology |
| Archana | Soam | SOFIA Science Center, USRA |
| Aditya | Togi | University of Montana |
| Amanda | Townsend | UC Davis |
| Le Ngoc | Tram | SOFIA-USRA |
| Łukasz | Tychoniec | ESO Garching |
| William | Vacca | SOFIA |
| Yao-Lun | Yang | University of Virginia |
| Hans | Zinnecker | Universidad Autonoma de Chile, Santiago and DSI, Univ. Stuttgart, Germany (retired) |