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The Detailed Science Case for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer, 2019 edition

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(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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The MSE Science Team, Carine Babusiaux, Maria Bergemann, Adam Burgasser, Sara Ellison, Daryl Haggard, Daniel Huber, Manoj Kaplinghat, Ting Li, Jennifer Marshall, Sarah Martell, Alan McConnachie, Will Percival, Aaron Robotham, Yue Shen, Sivarani Thirupathi, Kim-Vy Tran, Christophe Yeche, David Yong, Vardan Adibekyan, Victor Silva Aguirre, George Angelou, Martin Asplund, Michael Balogh, Projjwal Banerjee, Michele Bannister, Daniela Barría, Giuseppina Battaglia, Amelia Bayo, Keith Bechtol, Paul G. Beck, Timothy C. Beers, Earl P. Bellinger, Trystyn Berg, Joachim M. Bestenlehner, Maciej Bilicki, Bertram Bitsch, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Adam S. Bolton, Alessandro Boselli, Jo Bovy, Angela Bragaglia, Derek Buzasi, Elisabetta Caffau, Jan Cami, Timothy Carleton, Luca Casagrande, Santi Cassisi, Márcio Catelan, Chihway Chang, Luca Cortese, Ivana Damjanov, Luke J. M. Davies, Richard de Grijs, Gisella de Rosa, Alis Deason, Paola di Matteo, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Denis Erkal, Ana Escorza, Laura Ferrarese, Scott W. Fleming, Andreu Font-Ribera, Ken Freeman, Boris T. Gänsicke, Maksim Gabdeev, Sarah Gallagher, Davide Gandolfi, Rafael A. García, Patrick Gaulme, Marla Geha, Mario Gennaro, Mark Gieles, Karoline Gilbert, Yjan Gordon, Aruna Goswami, Johnny P. Greco, Carl Grillmair, Guillaume Guiglion, Vincent Hénault-Brunet, Patrick Hall, Gerald Handler, Terese Hansen, Nimish Hathi, Despina Hatzidimitriou, Misha Haywood, Juan V. Hernández Santisteban, Lynne Hillenbrand, Andrew M. Hopkins, Cullan Howlett, Michael J. Hudson, Rodrigo Ibata, Dragana Ilić, Pascale Jablonka, Alexander Ji, Linhua Jiang, Stephanie Juneau, Amanda Karakas, Drisya Karinkuzhi, Stacy Y. Kim. 2019-04-09. The Detailed Science Case for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer, 2019 edition. https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04907

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