Contents

• Contents
• List of Tables
• A SPECTROSCOPIC FACILITY FOR THE NEW MILLENIUM
• SWIFT SCIENCE
  • The Growth of Structure
  • Formation and Evolution of Galaxies
  • Formation of the Milky Way and Its Neighbors
• SYNERGY WITH GROUND-BASED IMAGING SURVEYS
• SYNERGY WITH SPACE-BASED MISSIONS
• TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY OF SWIFT
  • The Front-End Optics: Telescope + Corrector
  • The Spectrograph Optics
  • New High-Efficiency Grating Technology
  • Slitlet Density with SWIFT
  • Detector Requirements
  • Software
  • Technical Challenges
  • A Rough Cost Estimate

Acknowledgements