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Title: HWO25 Proceedings Part I: Community Science Case Development Documents
Monograph: 10 Year: 2026 View this Volume on ADS
Editors: Janice C. Lee, Jessica Noviello, Stephanie LaMassa, and Marc Postman
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HWO Science Development Papers from the Evolution of the Elements Science Working Group   
Echoes of the First Stars: Massive Star Evolution in Extremely Metal-Poor Environments with the Habitable Worlds Observatory 3 Peter Senchyna; Calum Hawcroft; Miriam Garcia; Aida Wofford; Janice C. Lee; Chris Evans
Dust Extinction Beyond the Milky Way 19 R. Paladini; S. Salim
Flash Spectroscopy of Core-Collapse Supernovae with the Habitable Worlds Observatory 27 Jennifer Andrews; Eric Burns
The Heavy Element Enrichment History of the Universe 31 Eric Burns; Jennifer Andrews
Very Massive Stars with the Habitable Worlds Observatory 37 Fabrice Martins; Aida Wofford; Miriam Garcia; Peter Senchyna; Janice Lee; Paul A. Scowen
Resolving Individual Stars in Nearby Large Galaxies with the Habitable Worlds Observatory 47 Adam Smercina; Tara Fetherolf
White Dwarfs as Probes of Extrasolar Planet Compositions and Fundamental Astrophysics 61 Siyi Xu (许偲艺); Martin Barstow; Andy Buchan; Erika Le Bourdais; Patrick Dufour
Habitable Worlds Observatory: The Nature of the First Stars 73 Ian U. Roederer; Rana Ezzeddine; Jennifer S. Sobeck
Habitable Worlds Observatory: The Nature of the Astrophysical r-process 79 Ian U. Roederer; Rana Ezzeddine
Envisioning the Distance Ladder in the Era of the Habitable Worlds Observatory 85 Gagandeep Anand; Meredith Durbin; Rachael Beaton
Probing the Variations of Interstellar Dust Abundance and Properties Within and Between Galaxies with HWO UV Spectroscopy in the Local Volume 97 Julia Roman-Duval; Mederic Boquien; Yumi Choi
Probing the Full Depth of ISM Properties with a UV-IFU 111 Bethan James; Danielle Berg
New Frontiers in the Study of Magnetic Massive Stars with the Habitable Worlds Observatory 123 Alexandre David-Uraz; V´eronique Petit; Coralie Neiner; Jean-Claude Bouret; Ya¨el Naz´e; Christiana Erba; Miriam Garcia; Kenneth Gayley; Richard Ignace; Jiˇ ri Krtiˇ cka; Hugues Sana; Nicole St-Louis; Asif ud-Doula
HWO Science Development Papers from the Galaxy Growth Science Working Group   
The Formation and Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes: IMBH Mass and Spin Functions 137 Jenna M. Cann; Krista Lynne Smith; Francesca Civano; Satyapriya Das; Erin K. S. Hicks; Gagandeep Kaur; Stephanie LaMassa; Jeffrey D. McKaig; Missagh Mehdipour; Gopika SM
Imaging the Dusty Torus Around Supermassive Black Holes 147 Varoujan Gorjian; Chris Packham; Erin Hicks; Stephanie La Massa
Exploring the Quiescent Black Hole Population of Nearby Dwarf Galaxies with the Habitable World Observatory 153 Fabio Pacucci
Deciphering The Launching of Multi-phase AGN-driven Outflows and Their (Spatially Resolved) Multi-scale Impact 161 Lulu Zhang; Gagandeep Kaur; Tianmu Gao; ´Alvaro Labiano; Erin K. S. Hicks; Vivian U; Chris Packham; Missagh Mehdipour; Travis Fischer; Thaisa Storchi Bergmann; Namrata Roy; Isabel M´arquez; Christiaan Boersma