MAUVE: An Ultraviolet Astrophysics Probe Mission Concept
Mayura Balakrishnan, Rory Bowens, Fernando Cruz Aguirre, Kaeli Hughes,, Rahul Jayaraman, Emily Kuhn, Emma Louden, Dana R. Louie, Keith McBride, Casey, McGrath, Jacob Payne, Tyler Presser, Joshua S. Reding, Emily Rickman, Rachel, Scrandis, Teresa Symons, Lindsey Wiser

TL;DR
MAUVE is a proposed UV astrophysics mission concept designed to study exoplanet atmospheres, transients, and extragalactic light, featuring a wide field, high sensitivity, and heritage detectors, though it remains an educational exercise.
Contribution
This paper introduces the MAUVE mission concept, the first to access the extreme UV spectrum in decades, with detailed science goals, observing plans, and mission design within a $1 billion budget.
Findings
MAUVE can observe UV sources down to magnitude 24.
The mission provides 70% of observing time for community proposals.
It extends UV wavelength coverage beyond previous missions.
Abstract
We present the mission concept "Mission to Analyze the UltraViolet universE" (MAUVE), a wide-field spectrometer and imager conceived during the inaugural NASA Astrophysics Mission Design School. MAUVE responds to the 2023 Announcement of Opportunity for Probe-class missions, with a budget cap of $1 billion, and would hypothetically launch in 2031. However, the formulation of MAUVE was an educational exercise and the mission is not being developed further. The Principal Investigator-led science of MAUVE aligns with the priorities outlined in the 2020 Astrophysics Decadal Survey, enabling new characterizations of exoplanet atmospheres, the early-time light curves of some of the universe's most explosive transients, and the poorly-understood extragalactic background light. Because the Principal Investigator science occupies 30% of the observing time available during the mission's 5 yr…
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