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Appendix C: The Current Astronomy and Astrophysics Enterprise
Appendix C: The Current Astronomy and Astrophysics Enterprise
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All of the information presented here can be found in much greater detail in Federal Funding of Astronomical Research (National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 2000~. Unfortunately, due to the rapid time scale for this study, combined with the difficulty of obtaining appropriate data, the committee was not able to update these plots using the most recent funding data.
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. SOURCE: After Figure 2.2 in Federal Funding of Astronomical Research (National Research Council, National Academv Press, Washington, D.C., 2000)
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SOURCE: After Figure 2.3 in Federal Funding of Astronomical Research (National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 2000)
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funding; these lines represent the essential "operating" budgets of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate and the Division of Astronomical Sciences. SOURCE: After Figure 5.1 in Federal Funding of Astronomical Research (National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 2000)
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The AST budget line does not include major construction funding under the MRE program. SOURCE: After Figure 5.2 in Federal Funding of Astronomical Research (National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 2000)
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Lower curves show the breakouts for AST; astronomy-related MRE, including the VLBA, GBT, Gemini, and ALMA but not LIGO; and other support for astronomy and astrophysics from MPS, OPP, ATM, and OMA. SOURCE: After Figure 5.3 in Federal Funding of Astronomical Research (National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 2000)
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In addition to support for research in the extramural scientific community, NASA supports researchers in many of its field installations, all via competitive peer review. According to NASA officials, NASA's astronomy and astrophysics programs, including solar and planetary astronomy, include approximately 2500 research grants.
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Fermilab, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center all have significant efforts in astrophysics. The Division of Nuclear Physics supports several theoretical nuclear astrophysics groups as well as three solar-neutrino experiments.
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SOURCE: After Figure 2.5 in Federal Funding of Astronomical Research (National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 2000)
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number of different DOD programs. The report Federal Funding of Astronomical Research (National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 2000)
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Details on solar astronomy observatories in the United States (both private/state and public) can be found in Ground-Based Solar Research: An Assessment and Strategy for the Future (National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1998~.
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The soon-to-be-published Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium: Panel Reports (National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 2001) contains much greater detail on the federal, international, and public/ state observatories for radio, optical/infrared, and solar astronomy.
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