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Appendix A: Statement of Task, Additional Guidance, and Panel Descriptions
Appendix A: Statement of Task, Additional Guidance, and Panel Descriptions
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3. Develop a comprehensive research strategy to advance the frontiers of astronomy and astrophysics for the period 2022–2032 that will include identifying, recommending, and ranking the highest priority research activities -- taking into account for each activity the scientific case, international and private landscape, timing, cost category and cost risk, as well as technical readiness, technical risk, and opportunities for partnerships.
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This report shall be made available following the completion of the study. ADDITIONAL GUIDANCE FOR THE DECADAL SURVEY Scope Reflecting previous astronomy and astrophysics decadal surveys and developments since the last survey, the scope of the study will include the entire breadth of research in the field.
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In developing a comprehensive research strategy, the study will also: • Consider agency (NASA Astrophysics Division, NSF Division of Astronomical Sciences and other NSF divisions supporting astrophysical research, and DOE Office of High Energy Physics) expectations of future budget allocations in the field, including interface areas, as well as expectations for the completion of projects already under development, and design recommendations based on budget scenarios relative to those expectations; the study may also consider scenarios that account for higher or lower-than-anticipated allocations.
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In assembling the slate of nominees for the committee and panels, National Academies staff will follow National Academies procedures for reducing and balancing biases and for ensuring that the committee and panels have the needed expertise across disciplines and diversity among their members, including gender, underrepresented groups, types and sizes of institutions, and geographic distribution. It is essential that the study solicit inputs from across the astronomy and astrophysics community broadly construed, by means of town hall meetings, sessions at geographically dispersed professional meetings, solicitation of white papers, and use of electronic communications and networks.
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PANEL DESCRIPTIONS -- SCIENCE PANELS Panel on Compact Objects and Energetic Phenomena The Panel on Compact Objects and Energetic Phenomena will identify and articulate the scientific themes that will define the frontier in research of compact objects and energetic phenomena in the 2022– 2032 decade. Its scope will include white dwarfs, neutron stars, pulsars, magnetars, stellar mass black holes, compact binary systems, novae, supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, fast radio bursts, physical processes and accretion onto supermassive black holes, and gravitational radiation and high-energy particles and radiation from astrophysical sources.
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Panel on Electromagnetic Observations from Space 2 The Panel on Electromagnetic Observations from Space 2 (EOS-2) will identify and suggest to the decadal survey committee a program of federal investment in research activities that involve observations of astrophysical phenomena primarily by means of radio, far-infrared, and high-energy electromagnetic observations from space, and research activities that involve gravitational radiation or particle detection from space.
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Panel on Particle Astrophysics and Gravitation The Panel on Particle Astrophysics and Gravitation (PAG) will identify and suggest to the decadal survey committee a program of federal investment in research activities exploring areas at the interface of physics and astronomy such as gravitational radiation, gamma-ray astronomy, cosmic rays, and neutrinos.
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To accomplish their work, the panels relied on 294 activity, project, or state of the profession (APC) white papers submitted by the astronomy and astrophysics community, the expertise of the panel members, independent TRACE analyses of selected projects, and as needed, invited speakers and additional requests for information from the proposed projects.
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