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Title: HWO25 Proceedings Part II: Mission Framework, Technology, and Broader Contributions

Monograph: 11 Year: 2026 View this Volume on ADS
Editors: Janice C. Lee, Jessica Noviello, Stephanie LaMassa, and Marc Postman
ISBN: 978-1-58381-972-2 eISBN: 978-1-58381-973-9

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Astrophysics Beyond 100 Parsecs: Cosmic Origins and Physics of the Cosmos 5 Allison L. Strom, Janice Lee, Sarah Tuttle, Eric Burns, Adam Smercina, and Thaisa Storchi Bergmann
Biosignatures Discussion Panel 9 Victoria Meadows, Niki Parenteau, and Giada Arney
Roman as a Pathfinder to Search for Life with HWO 13 Laurent Pueyo, Bruce Macintosh, and Iva Laginja
Emerging Technologies 19 Ruslan Belikov, Tania Bedrax-Weiss, John MacKenty, Bernard J. Rauscher, Susan Redmond, Dan Sirbu, Andrew Vanderburg, and Naseem Rangwala
HWO25: Servicing Space Observatories 27 John Grunsfeld, Ewan Douglas, Kevin France, Andrew Allen, Joseph Anderson, Benjamin Reed, and Julie Van Campen
Working Together to Enable HWO: Industry Partnerships 35 Jacobus M. Oschmann and Jonathan W. Arenberg
Collaborating for the Cosmos: HWO25 International Partnerships Panel 39 Megan Ansdell
From Science to Engineering for the Habitable Worlds Observatory 45 Aki Roberge, John Ziemer, Bertrand Mennesson, Jason Tumlinson, Eleonora Alei, Miles Currie, Breann Sitarski, and Christopher Stark
Towards the HWO Greater Instrument Complement - Science Drivers and Capabilities 49 Paul Scowen, Breann Sitarski, and Matthew Bolcar
Characterizing Ring Systems and Extremely Tight Trans-Neptunian Binaries with the Habitable Worlds Observatory 57 Bryan J. Holler, Richard J. Cartwright, Benjamin Proudfoot, and Aki Roberge
Very High Precision Astrometry for Exoplanets and Dark Matter with the Habitable Worlds Observatory 65 Fabien Malbet, Jerome Amiaux, Florence Ardellier-Desages, Renaud Goullioud
Supermagnified Stars in Lensing Clusters and Small-Scale Structure in the Dark Matter 73 Gabriel Torralba and Jordi Miralda-Escudé
Unveiling Intermediate-Mass Black Holes through Reverberation Mapping with the Habitable Worlds Observatory 79 Vivian U, Ed Cackett, Aaron Barth, and Varoujan Gorjian
Potential Binary Supermassive Black Holes in Markarian 231 as a Scientific Case for the Spectropolarimeter POLLUX 83 Julie Biedermann, Frédéric Marin, Coralie Neiner, and Jean-Claude Bouret
Advancing Our Understanding of the Interstellar Medium with the Habitable Worlds Observatory 87 Adam M. Ritchey
Astrobiologically Interesting Stars Within 20 Parsecs of the Sun 93 Tarek Haimuri and Gustavo F. Porto de Mello
Towards a Statistical Framework for HWO Biosignature Assessment 103 Victoria Meadows, Heather Graham, Chris Kempes, Samuel McCarty, Alexandra Papesh, Andrew Lincowski, Megan Gialluca, Tyler Robinson, Josh Krissansen-Totton, and Jacob Lustig-Yaeger
Network and Kinetics-based Biosignatures: Implications for the Putative Habitable World Observatory Design 109 Theresa Fisher, Chester Harman, Estelle Janin, Megan Shabram, Shang-Min Tsai, Nicholas Wogan, and Michael Wong
Volcanic Markers for Assessing Planet Habitability: Insights [6pt] from the AVENGERS Initiative for HWO 115 Piero D’Incecco
HWO NIR and NUV Spectra Quality and Wavelength Cutoff Impact on Exo-Earth Yield over a Broad Architecture Range 121 Rhonda Morgan, Michael Turmon, Mario Damiano, Dmitry Savransky, Giada Arney, Renyu Hu, Bertrand Mennesson, Eric Mamajek, Armen Tokadjian, Aki Roberge, and Tyler Robinson
The Exoplanet Science Case for the High-Resolution Pollux Spectrograph 125 L. Fossati, J.-Y. Chaufray, P. E. Cubillos, A. Strugarek, S. V. Berdyugina, F. Borsa, J. A. Caballero, E. Ehl, L. N. Fletcher, A. Fludra, L. Gkouvelis, J. L. Grenfell, M. Güdel, K. G. Kislyakova, A. Moin, E. Palle, C. Pearson, A. G. Sreejith, D. Veras, A. A. Vidotto, D. M. Weigt, T. G. Wilson, T. Zingales, and the Pollux planets WG