Submitted Themes for ESA’s Cosmic Vision 2015-2025
Over 150 proposals were received in response to the Call for Themes for ESA’s Cosmic Vision 2015-2025. The themes are ordered below by the proposing group or individual.
| Title: | Magnetic clouds – A valuable tool for space weather |
| Proposed by: | A. Geranios et al. |
| Contact Email: | agerancc.uoa.gr |
| Title: | Search for an Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron |
| Proposed by: | Achim Peters |
| Contact Email: | achim.petersphysik.hu-berlin.de |
| Title: | Space Propulsion by direct use of the Energy of Fission Fragments |
| Proposed by: | Adinolfi Roberto et al. |
| Contact Email: | Roberto.Adinolfiaen.ansaldo.it |
| Title: | A large UV-Telescope (“Bio-UV Telescope”) for a Deep Search of Bio-markers in Extrasolar Planets |
| Proposed by: | Alain Lecavelier |
| Contact Email: | lecaveliiap.fr |
| Title: | Search for Planets and Life in the Universe |
| Proposed by: | Alain Leger et al. |
| Contact Email: | Alain.Legerias.u-psud.fr |
| Title: | Ice monitoring in the solar system and elsewhere |
| Proposed by: | Alain Sarkissian et al. |
| Contact Email: | Alain.sarkissianaerov.jussieu.fr |
| Title: | Unveiling the Dark Universe with a Wide-Field Imager in Space |
| Proposed by: | Alexandre Réfrégier et al. |
| Contact Email: | refregiercea.fr |
| Title: | The relevance of the UV window for modern astrophysics |
| Proposed by: | Ana Ines Gomez de Castro et al. |
| Contact Email: | aigmat.ucm.es |
| Title: | Test of Isotropy of Space for the Coulomb Potential by Means of Molecular Internal State Quantum Interferometry |
| Proposed by: | Andreas Wicht et al. |
| Contact Email: | andreas.wichtuni-duesseldorf.de |
| Title: | The Environment for Life: a Cosmic Vision theme for ESA |
| Proposed by: | Andrew Coates |
| Contact Email: | ajcmssl.ucl.ac.uk |
| Title: | A breakthrough in Fundamental Physics from space |
| Proposed by: | Anna Nobili |
| Contact Email: | nobilidm.unipi.it |
| Title: | The hypertelescope path – Toward direct images of exo-Earths and other objects with micro-arc-second resolution |
| Proposed by: | Antoine Labeyrie |
| Contact Email: | labeyrieobs-hp.fr |
| Title: | A sample return mission to Near Earth Objects |
| Proposed by: | Antonella Barucci |
| Contact Email: | antonella.barucciobspm.fr |
| Title: | Meteoroids and their meteor showers in the solar system: an unexplored realm |
| Proposed by: | Apostolos A. Christou et al. |
| Contact Email: | aacstar.arm.ac.uk |
| Title: | Mars exploration with emphasis on the ancient martian rock record as a proxy for the missing Hadean and earliest Archaean record on Earth |
| Proposed by: | Archaean Consortium |
| Contact Email: | westallcnrs-orleans.fr |
| Title: | Ultracold atomic gases – probes for ultralow-energy phenomena |
| Proposed by: | Axel Goerlitz et al. |
| Contact Email: | axel.goerlitzuni-duesseldorf.de |
| Title: | Exploring Dark Matter |
| Proposed by: | Bernard F. Schutz et al. |
| Contact Email: | oliver.jennrichrssd.esa.int |
| Title: | Virtual Human Spaceflight: an alternative to human and robotic mission concepts |
| Proposed by: | Bernard Farkin, DigitalSpace Europe |
| Contact Email: | bedigitalspace-europe.com |
| Title: | Chemical Evolution of pre-supernovae, convection and cosmic magnetic fields |
| Proposed by: | C. Catala et al. |
| Contact Email: | i.w.roxburghqmul.ac.uk |
| Title: | Experimental investigation of the Pioneer anomaly |
| Proposed by: | C. Kiefer et al. |
| Contact Email: | kieferthp.uni-koeln.de |
| Title: | Search for New Short-Range Forces through a Test of the Inverse Square Law of Gravitation at 1µ |
| Proposed by: | C.C. Speake et al. |
| Contact Email: | ctstar.sr.bham.ac.uk |
| Title: | Search for Lorentz Symmetry Violation and Spin-Spin coupling Forces |
| Proposed by: | C.Trenkel et al. |
| Contact Email: | ctstar.sr.bham.ac.uk |
| Title: | An artificial Moon as an example of the application of precise ësecond generationí drag-free technology |
| Proposed by: | CC Speake |
| Contact Email: | c.c.speakebham.ac.uk |
| Title: | Ultra-Stable Clocks in Space |
| Proposed by: | Christophe Salomon et al. |
| Contact Email: | Andre.Claironobspm.fr |
| Title: | The exploration of the Martian subsurface |
| Proposed by: | Claude díUston et al. |
| Contact Email: | Francis.Rocardcnes.fr |
| Title: | ELR (European Lunar Radiometers) – Radiometers orbiting the Moon or landed on the Farside To measure how Radio-Quiet the Farside of the Moon is |
| Proposed by: | Claudio Maccone |
| Contact Email: | clmacconlibero.it |
| Title: | Search for an Anomalous Coupling of the Elementary Particle Spin to Gravity |
| Proposed by: | Claus Laemmerzahl |
| Contact Email: | laemmerzahlzarm.uni-bremen.de |
| Title: | Deep Space Laser Ranging: Mapping the Solar System and Probing the Fundamental Law of Spacetime |
| Proposed by: | Claus Lämmerzahl et al. |
| Contact Email: | laemmerzahlzarm.uni-bremen.de |
| Title: | Observation of the Gravitomagnetic Clock-Effect |
| Proposed by: | Claus Lämmerzahl et al. |
| Contact Email: | laemmerzahlzarm.uni-bremen.de |
| Title: | Significance of the Pioneer Anomaly |
| Proposed by: | Claus Lämmerzahl et al. |
| Contact Email: | laemmerzahlzarm.uni-bremen.de |
| Title: | Testing General Relativity with Long-Term Satellite Tracking |
| Proposed by: | Claus Lämmerzahl et al. |
| Contact Email: | laemmerzahlzarm.uni-bremen.de |
| Title: | Astrobiological exploration of the solar system and the extrasolar planets |
| Proposed by: | Conseil de Groupement du GDR CNRS Exobio |
| Contact Email: | raulinlisa.univ-paris12.fr |
| Title: | SAS – A comparative investigation of the ULF-ELF-VLF (to RF) phenomena, it’s source activity and physical background on planets, on interplanetary space and the terrestrial effects |
| Proposed by: | Csaba Ferencz et al. |
| Contact Email: | spacergsas.elte.hu |
| Title: | Origin and Evolution of the outer Solar System from the composition of giant planets and of comets of the Oort cloud |
| Proposed by: | Daniel Gautier et al. |
| Contact Email: | Daniel.Gautierobspm.fr |
| Title: | Fundamental and Nuclear Physics with Black Holes and Neutron Stars – Supporting case for a large European X-ray Observatory |
| Proposed by: | Didier Barret et al. |
| Contact Email: | didier.barretcesr.fr |
| Title: | Observational cosmology – the evolution of intergalactic abundances and of the fluctuating metagalactic UV background |
| Proposed by: | Dieter Reimers |
| Contact Email: | st2e101hs.uni-hamburg.de |
| Title: | Cosmic Vision: Life on Mars |
| Proposed by: | Dirk Möhlmann et al. |
| Contact Email: | dirk.moehlmanndlr.de |
| Title: | European Planetary Materials Program |
| Proposed by: | Eberhard Gruen |
| Contact Email: | eberhard.gruenmpi-hd.mpg.de, gruenhigp.hawaii.edu |
| Title: | Solar Microscopy – Unveiling the Sunís basic physical processes at their intrinsic scales |
| Proposed by: | Eckart Marsch et al. |
| Contact Email: | marschlinmpi.mpg.de |
| Title: | The Scientific Case for Spectropolarimetry from Space |
| Proposed by: | Egidio Landi Degl’Innocenti et al. |
| Contact Email: | landiearcetri.astro.it, jtbiac.es , vmpiac.es |
| Title: | Opening a new window to fundamental physics and astrophysics – Science case for an X-ray polarimeter |
| Proposed by: | Enrico Costa et al. |
| Contact Email: | costarm.iasf.cnr.it |
| Title: | Geochemical investigation of the deep atmosphere, surface and interior of Venus |
| Proposed by: | Eric Chassefière et al. |
| Contact Email: | eric.chassefiereaero.jussieu..fr |
| Title: | Study of atmospheric escape, ionospheric physics and magnetic field on Mars |
| Proposed by: | Eric Chassefière et al. |
| Contact Email: | eric.chassefiereaero.jussieu..fr |
| Title: | Opening Particle Astronomy to probe and understand the evolving Universe |
| Proposed by: | Eric Plagnol et al. |
| Contact Email: | plagnolipno.in2p3.fr |
| Title: | Exploring Gravity in the Quantum Domain |
| Proposed by: | Ernst M. Rasel |
| Contact Email: | raseliqo.uni-hannover.de |
| Title: | Quest for a second genesis of life |
| Proposed by: | European Exo/Astrobiology Network Association (EANA) |
| Contact Email: | brackcnrs-orleans.fr |
| Title: | Hard X and Gamma-ray Polarization: the ultimate dimension |
| Proposed by: | Ezio Caroli et al. |
| Contact Email: | ezio.carolibo.iasf.bo.cnr.it |
| Title: | Exploring the hard X-/gamma-ray continuum sky at unprecedented sensitivity |
| Proposed by: | Filippo Frontera et al. |
| Contact Email: | fronterafe.infn.it |
| Title: | Probing the high energy universe |
| Proposed by: | François Lebrun et al. |
| Contact Email: | flebruncea.fr |
| Title: | European space weather – space science programme or “Multi Space and Time Scale Solar-Terrestrial Study (M-(STS)2)” |
| Proposed by: | François Lefeuvre et al. |
| Contact Email: | lefeuvrecnrs-orleans.fr |
| Title: | The Universe at Very Long Wavelengths: opening the last window of the electro -magnetic spectrum |
| Proposed by: | G.K. Miley et al. |
| Contact Email: | mileystrw.leidenuniv.nl lgurvitsjive.nl |
| Title: | Understanding the Planetary Population in our Galaxy |
| Proposed by: | Giampaolo Piotto et al. |
| Contact Email: | piottopd.astro.it |
| Title: | The Birth of Stars and Planets |
| Proposed by: | Glenn White et al. |
| Contact Email: | g.j.whitekent.ac.uk |
| Title: | The Evolution of Icy Regions in our Solar System |
| Proposed by: | Günter Kargl et al |
| Contact Email: | guenter.kargloeaw.ac.at |
| Title: | Establishment of a Cross-Disciplinary Earth and Planetary Systems Laboratory |
| Proposed by: | Hans E.F. Amundsen et al. |
| Contact Email: | h.e.f.amundsenfys.uio.no |
| Title: | Oxygen circulation of planetary atmosphere and lithosphere |
| Proposed by: | Hans Nilsson et al. |
| Contact Email: | haneirf.se |
| Title: | Laser Interferometric Test of Relativity |
| Proposed by: | Hansjörg Dittus et al. |
| Contact Email: | dittuszarm.uni-bremen.de |
| Title: | Testing the Pioneer Anomaly |
| Proposed by: | Hansjörg Dittus et al. |
| Contact Email: | dittuszarm.uni-bremen.de |
| Title: | Investigation of the Kuiper belt |
| Proposed by: | Harald Michaelis |
| Contact Email: | harald.michaelisdlr.de |
| Title: | Physics of the Earthís upper atmosphere: Studies of transient phenomena and long-term climatological effects |
| Proposed by: | Harri Laakso |
| Contact Email: | harri.laaksoesa.int |
| Title: | Space Exploration and the New Enlightenment |
| Proposed by: | Ian Wright |
| Contact Email: | i.p.wrightopen.ac.uk |
| Title: | In-situ studies as new windows to astrophysics and space science |
| Proposed by: | Ingrid Mann et al. |
| Contact Email: | imannuni-muenster.de |
| Title: | The Global Star-formation History from X-ray’s: the Large European X-ray Observatory Vision |
| Proposed by: | Ioannis Georgantopoulos et al. |
| Contact Email: | igastro.noa.gr |
| Title: | Needs for Ultraviolet Facilities in Astrophysics |
| Proposed by: | Isabella Pagano et al. |
| Contact Email: | ipact.astro.it |
| Title: | Super-massive Black Holes in the early Universe |
| Proposed by: | James Hough et al. |
| Contact Email: | oliver.jennrichrssd.esa.int |
| Title: | Turbulence and bulk mass flow in energetic objects: hot plasma dynamics |
| Proposed by: | Jan Willem den Herder et al. |
| Contact Email: | J.den.Herdersron.nl |
| Title: | Investigation of Chirality in Space Environments |
| Proposed by: | Jan-Erik Wahkund et al. |
| Contact Email: | jweirfu.se |
| Title: | Lamarck: an International Space Interferometer for Exo-Life studies |
| Proposed by: | Jean Schneider et al. |
| Contact Email: | Jean.Schneiderobspm.fr |
| Title: | Exoplanet detection and characterization |
| Proposed by: | Jean Surdej et al. |
| Contact Email: | surdejastro.ulg.ac.be |
| Title: | The Universe at long radio wavelengths |
| Proposed by: | Jean-Louis Bougeret |
| Contact Email: | jean-louis.bougeretobspm.fr |
| Title: | Search for planetary habitability in the Solar System and beyond |
| Proposed by: | Jean-Loup Bertaux |
| Contact Email: | bertauxaerov.jussieu.fr |
| Title: | Theme: Early universe and fundamental physics |
| Proposed by: | Jean-Loup Puget et al. |
| Contact Email: | patricia.jeauneauias.u-psud.fr |
| Title: | Intergalactic Medium Investigation and UV astronomy |
| Proposed by: | Jean-Michel Deharveng et al. |
| Contact Email: | jean-michel.deharvengoamp.fr |
| Title: | Conjugate Auroral Spectrographic Telescope Explorer (CASTE) |
| Proposed by: | Johan Stadsnes et al. |
| Contact Email: | johan.stadsnesfi.uib.no |
| Title: | Support of Astroparticle Physics missions |
| Proposed by: | Johannes Blümer |
| Contact Email: | bluemerik.fzk.de |
| Title: | LISA Mission and the Pioneer anomaly |
| Proposed by: | José Luis Rosales |
| Contact Email: | JoseLuis.Rosalesesp.xerox.com |
| Title: | The Emergence of the Modern Universe |
| Proposed by: | Joseph Silk et al. |
| Contact Email: | silkastro.ox.ac.uk |
| Title: | Physics behind the Long-term Variability of Interacting Compact Binaries |
| Proposed by: | Juhani Huovelin et al. |
| Contact Email: | osmi.vilhuhelsinki.fi |
| Title: | Nuclear astrophysics – Gamma-ray Spectrocopy in the MeV Domain |
| Proposed by: | Jürgen Knödlseder et al. |
| Contact Email: | knodlsedercesr.fr |
| Title: | Call for a Jovian Satellite Exploration Initiative with Orbiters and Landers |
| Proposed by: | Jürgen Oberst et al. |
| Contact Email: | Juergen.Oberstdlr.de |
| Title: | Call for a Long-Lived Global Lunar Geophysical Network |
| Proposed by: | Jürgen Oberst et al. |
| Contact Email: | Juergen.Oberstdlr.de |
| Title: | Gravitational Wave Cosmology |
| Proposed by: | Karsten Danzmann et al. |
| Contact Email: | oliver.jennrichrssd.esa.int |
| Title: | Scientific themes: The ìStar-Sun-Earthî connection and Cosmic Magnetic Fields Technical challenge: Ultra-high resolution imaging of stars with a free-flying UV/Optical interferometer |
| Proposed by: | Klaus G. Strassmeier et al. |
| Contact Email: | kstrassmeieraip.de |
| Title: | Search for and Investigation of Small Celestial Bodies for the Protection of Earth |
| Proposed by: | Klaus J. Seidensticker et al. |
| Contact Email: | Klaus.Seidenstickerdlr.de |
| Title: | Hot Stars and Supernovae as Engines and Tracers for the Chemical Evolution of Galaxies |
| Proposed by: | Klaus Werner et al. |
| Contact Email: | wernerastro.uni-tuebingen.de |
| Title: | The Universe is changing every minute, we just have to look |
| Proposed by: | Libor ävéda et al. |
| Contact Email: | svedaltroja.fjfi.cvut.cz |
| Title: | The Sun as a Particle Accelerator |
| Proposed by: | Lyndsay Fletcher et al. |
| Contact Email: | l.fletcherphysics.gla.ac.uk |
| Title: | Acceleration and Reconnection in Near-Earth Space |
| Proposed by: | Manuel Grande et al. |
| Contact Email: | M.Granderl.ac.uk |
| Title: | Deimos Sample Return Mission |
| Proposed by: | Marcello Fulchignoni |
| Contact Email: | marcello.fulchignoniobspm.fr |
| Title: | The Future of Ultraviolet Astronomy |
| Proposed by: | Martin Barstow et al. |
| Contact Email: | mabstar.le.ac.uk |
| Title: | Evolution of Atmospheres and Ionospheres of Planets and Exoplanets |
| Proposed by: | Mats André et al. |
| Contact Email: | mats.andreirfu.se |
| Title: | Surface research by space plasma instruments |
| Proposed by: | Mats Holmström et al. |
| Contact Email: | matshirf.se |
| Title: | The Formation and History of Galaxies |
| Proposed by: | Matt Griffin et al. |
| Contact Email: | matt.griffinastro.cf.ac.uk |
| Title: | Solar / Heliospheric Dynamics and Magnetism |
| Proposed by: | Maxim Khodachenko et al. |
| Contact Email: | maxin.khodachenkooeaw.ac.at |
| Title: | Ultra high precision measurements of the Equivalence Principle |
| Proposed by: | Michael C.W. Sandford |
| Contact Email: | M.C.W.Sandfordrl.ac.uk |
| Title: | Themes for Space Science 2015-25 – Astrometric Detection of Earth-Mass Planets |
| Proposed by: | Michael Perryman |
| Contact Email: | mperrymarssd.esa.int |
| Title: | Exploring Giant Planets and their satellite systems |
| Proposed by: | Michel Blanc et al. |
| Contact Email: | blancoamp.fr |
| Title: | A nano-satellite constellation to study the radiation belts |
| Proposed by: | Mike Hapgood et al. |
| Contact Email: | M.A.Hapgoodrl.ac.uk |
| Title: | The future of Ultraviolet Astrophysics |
| Proposed by: | Network for UltraViolet Astrophysics (NUVA) |
| Contact Email: | aigmat.ucm.es |
| Title: | Gamma Ray Bursts polarization |
| Proposed by: | Nicolas Produit et al. |
| Contact Email: | Nicolas.Produitobs.unige.ch |
| Title: | A Multi-Disciplinary Investigation of the Jovian System |
| Proposed by: | Nicolas Thomas et al. |
| Contact Email: | nicolas.thomasphim.unibe.ch |
| Title: | A Mission to Test the Pioneer Anomaly and to Probe the Mass Distribution in the Nearby Outer Solar System |
| Proposed by: | Orfeu Bertolami et al. |
| Contact Email: | orfeucosmos.ist.utl.pt |
| Title: | Theme: Exploration of the outer Solar System Uranus Orbiter and Probe |
| Proposed by: | Patrick Canu |
| Contact Email: | Patrick.Canucetp.ipsl.fr |
| Title: | POLARIS – POLARization based Inflation Survey |
| Proposed by: | Per B. Lilje et al. |
| Contact Email: | per.liljeastro.uio.no |
| Title: | Testing General Relativity by Mapping the Latitudinal Dependence of the Lense-Thirring effect |
| Proposed by: | Philippe Bouyer |
| Contact Email: | philippe.bouyeriota.u-psud.fr |
| Title: | Interferometry with Coherent Ensembles of atoms (ICE) |
| Proposed by: | Philippe Bouyer et al. |
| Contact Email: | philippe.bouyeriota.u-psud.fr |
| Title: | Novel ìAtomî Optics (NAO) – for probing gravity in space |
| Proposed by: | Philippe Bouyer et al. |
| Contact Email: | philippe.bouyeriota.u-psud.fr |
| Title: | Planetary European Network of Geophysical Observatories (PENGO) |
| Proposed by: | Philippe Lognonné et al. |
| Contact Email: | lognonneipgp.jussieu.fr |
| Title: | Investigation on the origin of cosmic rays with the development of a stratospheric airship platform for scientific payloads |
| Proposed by: | Pier Simone Marrocchesi et al. |
| Contact Email: | marrocchesipi.infn.it |
| Title: | Energetic Solar Cosmic Ray Surveyor and Monitor |
| Proposed by: | Piero Spillantini |
| Contact Email: | spillantinifi.infn.it |
| Title: | Lunar observatory for cosmic ray physics |
| Proposed by: | Piero Spillantini et al. |
| Contact Email: | pacearcetri.astro.it |
| Title: | Unveiling the High Energy Obscured Universe: hunting collapsed objects physics – To preserve the ESA leading role in gamma-ray Astrophysics in the next decade |
| Proposed by: | Pietro Ubertini et al. |
| Contact Email: | ubertinirm.iasf.cnr.it |
| Title: | Exploring Earth’s Quasi-Moon and coorbital companions |
| Proposed by: | Rainer Riemann |
| Contact Email: | rainer.riemannweb.de |
| Title: | Venus Interior and Ionospheric Orbiters |
| Proposed by: | Raphael Garcia et al. |
| Contact Email: | garciaipgp.jussieu.fr |
| Title: | Electromagnetic Propulsion |
| Proposed by: | Remi Cornwall |
| Contact Email: | remicorn-wall.freeserve.co.uk |
| Title: | Momentum transfer from solar wind to planetary rotation |
| Proposed by: | Rickard Lundin et al. |
| Contact Email: | rickardirf.se |
| Title: | In-Situ Exploration of Previously Unexplored Planetary Surfaces (e.g Europa, Io, Titan) |
| Proposed by: | Rob A. Gowen |
| Contact Email: | ragmssl.ucl.ac.uk |
| Title: | Investigations of the CASIMIR Force and Vacuum fluctuations |
| Proposed by: | Robert Bingham et al. |
| Contact Email: | N.J.Leggerl.ac.uk |
| Title: | Matter-Wave Decoherence |
| Proposed by: | Robert Bingham et al. |
| Contact Email: | N.J.Leggerl.ac.uk |
| Title: | The role of quantum fluctuations in matter-wave interferometry |
| Proposed by: | Robert Bingham et al. |
| Contact Email: | r.binghamrl.ac.uk |
| Title: | Heliospheric Explorer – HEX – beyond the edges of the solar system |
| Proposed by: | Robert F. Wimmer-Schweingruber et al. |
| Contact Email: | wimmerphysik.uni-kiel.de |
| Title: | Our Laboratory Moon |
| Proposed by: | Roberto Battiston et al. |
| Contact Email: | r.battistontiscali.it |
| Title: | ìNEWTON Bî – A Low Cost Space Experiment to Measure the Value of the Universal Gravitational Constant (G) to Greatly Increased Accuracy |
| Proposed by: | Roger Longstaff |
| Contact Email: | r.longstaff3ntlworld.com |
| Title: | Cosmic Vision 2015-2025: MeV Gamma-Ray Science |
| Proposed by: | Roland Diehl et al. |
| Contact Email: | rodmpe.mpg.de |
| Title: | Exobiology and micrometeorites: search for the origin of life |
| Proposed by: | Santi Aiello et al. |
| Contact Email: | pacearcetri.astro.it |
| Title: | The ultimate all-sky survey of the X-ray sky |
| Proposed by: | Sergio Campana et al. |
| Contact Email: | campanamerate.mi.astro.it |
| Title: | The cosmological study of diffuse baryons: the role of Low Background Wide-Field X-ray Imagers |
| Proposed by: | Silvano Molendi et al. |
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