THE E-ELT DESIGN REFERENCE MISSION

DRM PROPOSALS

The following is the list of DRM proposals for the science cases chosen by the SWG for the DRM:

• Planets & Stars
  • S3: From giant to terrestrial exoplanets: detection, characterization and evolution
    • Direct imaging of terrestrial and giant exoplanets (demo case; v1: 04 Mar 2008)
    • Earth twins in the habitable zone of solar-type stars
    • Rocky planets in the habitable zones of low-mass stars and brown dwarfs
    • Physical properties of Earth-sized planets
  • S9: Circumstellar disks
    • Imaging the planet-forming regions of circumstellar disks (v1: 04 Mar 2008)
    • Dynamics and chemical evolution of circumstellar disks (v1: 04 Mar 2008)
  • S5: Young stellar clusters (incl. Galactic Centre)
    • Characterizing the lowest mass freely floating objects in star forming regions (v2: 21 Apr 2008)
    • The Centers of Massive Dense Young Clusters: deep ELT infrared imaging and 3D spectroscopy (v1: 16 Mar 2008)
    • Giant-planet-mass objects in the Large Magellanic Cloud (v2: 21 Apr 2008)
• Stars & Galaxies
  • G4: Imaging and spectroscopy of resolved stellar populations in galaxies
    • The Resolved Stellar Populations of Elliptical Galaxies (demo case; v1: 04 Mar 2008)
    • The Chemo-Dynamical Structure of Galaxies (v1: 04 Mar 2008)
    • First Stars relics in the Milky-Way and satellites (v1: 04 Mar 2008)
  • G9: Black holes / AGN
    • A Survey of Black Holes in Different Environments (v1: 04 Mar 2008)
• Galaxies & Cosmology
  • C10: The physics of high redshift galaxies
    • The Physics and Mass Assembly of Galaxies out to z ~ 6 (demo case; v1: 04 Mar 2008)
    • High resolution imaging of high redshift galaxies (v1: 04 Mar 2008)
    • ELT integrated spectroscopy of early-type galaxies at z > 1 (v1: 04 Mar 2008)
  • C4: First light – the highest redshift galaxies
    • First light – the highest redshift galaxies (v2: 22 Mar 2010)
  • C7: Is the low-density intergalactic medium metal enriched?
    • Is the low-density intergalactic medium at z ~ 2-3 metal enriched? (v1: 04 Mar 2008)
  • C2: A dynamical measurement of the expansion history of the Universe
    • Monitoring the redshift-drift of the Lyman-α forest – a direct measurement of the dynamical evolution of the Universe (v1: 04 Mar 2008)

The letter/number combinations refer to the science case designations in the SWG's first report.