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The Detailed Science Case for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer, 2019 edition
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Team, The MSE Science; Babusiaux, Carine; Bergemann, Maria; Burgasser, Adam; Ellison, Sara; Haggard, Daryl; Huber, Daniel; Kaplinghat, Manoj; Li, Ting; Marshall, Jennifer; Martell, Sarah; McConnachie, Alan; Percival, Will; Robotham, Aaron; Shen, Yue; Thirupathi, Sivarani; Tran, Kim-Vy; Yeche, Christophe; Yong, David; Adibekyan, Vardan; Aguirre, Victor Silva; Angelou, George; Asplund, Martin; Balogh, Michael; Banerjee, Projjwal; Bannister, Michele; Barría, Daniela; Battaglia, Giuseppina; Bayo, Amelia; Bechtol, Keith; Beck, Paul G; Beers, Timothy C; Bellinger, Earl P; Berg, Trystyn; Bestenlehner, Joachim M; Bilicki, Maciej; Bitsch, Bertram; Bland-Hawthorn, Joss; Bolton, Adam S; Boselli, Alessandro; Bovy, Jo; Bragaglia, Angela; Buzasi, Derek; Caffau, Elisabetta; Cami, Jan; Carleton, Timothy; Casagrande, Luca; Cassisi, Santi; Catelan, Márcio; Chang, Chihway; Cortese, Luca; Damjanov, Ivana; Davies, Luke JM; Grijs, Richard de; Rosa, Gisella de; Deason, Alis; Matteo, Paola di; Drlica-Wagner, Alex; Erkal, Denis; Escorza, Ana; Ferrarese, Laura; Fleming, Scott W; Font-Ribera, Andreu; Freeman, Ken; Gänsicke, Boris T; Gabdeev, Maksim; Gallagher, Sarah; Gandolfi, Davide; García, Rafael A; Gaulme, Patrick; Geha, Marla; Gennaro, Mario; Gieles, Mark; Gilbert, Karoline; Gordon, Yjan; Goswami, Aruna; Greco, Johnny P; Grillmair, Carl; Guiglion, Guillaume; Hénault-Brunet, Vincent; Hall, Patrick; Handler, Gerald; Hansen, Terese; Hathi, Nimish; Hatzidimitriou, Despina; Haywood, Misha; Santisteban, Juan V Hernández; Hillenbrand, Lynne; Hopkins, Andrew M; Howlett, Cullan; Hudson, Michael J; Ibata, Rodrigo; Ilić, Dragana; Jablonka, Pascale; Ji, Alexander; Jiang, Linhua; Juneau, Stephanie; Karakas, Amanda; Karinkuzhi, Drisya; Kim, Stacy Y
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(Abridged) The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) is an end-to-end scienceplatform for the design, execution and scientific exploitation of spectroscopicsurveys. It will unveil the composition and dynamics of the faint Universe andimpact nearly every field of astrophysics across all spatial scales, fromindividual stars to the largest scale structures in the Universe. Major pillarsin the science program for MSE include (i) the ultimate Gaia follow-up facilityfor 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 ofrevolutionary surveys that have occurred in the nearby Universe, but nowconducted at the peak of the star formation history of the Universe (iii)derivation of the mass of the neutrino and insights into inflationary physicsthrough a cosmological redshift survey that probes a large volume of theUniverse with a high galaxy density. MSE is positioned to become a critical hubin the emerging international network of front-line astronomical facilities,with scientific capabilities that naturally complement and extend thescientific power of Gaia, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the SquareKilometer Array, Euclid, WFIRST, the 30m telescopes and many more.