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Appendix C
Appendix C
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Planned to support the probes and the two observatory missions are the Big Bang Observer and the Black Hole Imager. BPA -- Board on Physics and Astronomy An NRC unit whose goals are to impartially monitor the health of physics and astronomy, identify important new developments at the scientific forefront, foster interactions with other fields, strengthen connections to technology, facilitate effective service to the nation, and improve the public's understanding of science.
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COBE -- Cosmic Background Explorer The COBE satellite was developed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to measure the diffuse infrared and microwave radiation from the early universe to the limits set by the astrophysical environment. Launched in November 1989, it provided the first detailed map of fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background, thus yielding unprecedented information about the origin and structure of the universe and the nature of the Big Bang.
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Such X-rays emanate from many sources, including supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies, stellar mass black holes, neutron stars, and embedded supernovae in our galaxy, as well as the mysterious distant sources of gamma-ray bursts of radiation. FACA -- Federal Advisory Committee Act The federal act that authorizes the establishment of a system governing the creation and operation of advisory committees in the executive branch of the federal government and for other purposes.
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INTEGRAL -- International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory INTEGRAL is a European Space Agency space-based observatory launched in 2002 to study our galaxy's structure, its center, and the compact objects (black holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs, gamma-ray bursts) within it, as well as to explore extragalactic phenomena.
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The direct measurement of gravitational radiation from the coalescence of supermassive black holes as distant galaxies merge and from the rotation of local white dwarf binaries will open enable investigations into the physics of strong gravitational fields. LOFAR -- Low Frequency Array LOFAR is a proposed large radio telescope array that will operate in the 10- to 240-MHz frequency range.
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OSTP -- Office of Science and Technology Policy, office of the Presidential Science Advisor Established in 1976 with a broad mandate to advise the President and others within the Executive Office of the President on the effects of science and technology on domestic and international affairs, OSTP is tasked to lead an interagency effort to develop and implement sound science and technology policies and budgets and to work with the private sector, state and local governments, the science and higher education communities, and other nations toward this end. Physics of the Universe, OSTP report Released in February 2004 and written by OSTP's Interagency Working Group on the Physics of the Universe, The Physics of the Universe was produced in response to the NRC's 2003 report Connecting Quarks with the Cosmos: Eleven Science Questions for the New Century.
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Now operational and renamed the Spitzer Space Telescope. SKA -- Square Kilometer Array SKA is planned to be an international ground-based centimeter-wave radio telescope array with 106 square meters of collecting area that will enable study of the first structures and the first luminous objects to form during the dawn of the modern universe.
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XMM-Newton -- ESA's X-ray space observatory Launched by the European Space Agency in late 1999, XMM-Newton is the largest scientific satellite ever built in Europe. XMM-Newton explores X-rays from accretion onto black holes, properties of exploding stars, the nature of exotic matter, and gamma-ray bursts.
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