Report of the Panel on Implementing Recommendations from the New Worlds, New Horizons Decadal Survey (2012) / Chapter Skim
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B Summary of the Workshop
B Summary of the Workshop
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They noted the tight meeting agenda and asked speakers to be efficient in their presentations and to leave time for questions. They concluded by remarking that both the Board on Physics and Astronomy and the Space Studies Board -- of which they are chairs, respectively -- had just earlier that morning been discussing the need for NRC stewardship of the space sciences decadal surveys, including the astronomy and astrophysics survey, and that this rapid panel and workshop activity only underscored that need.
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Jon Morse, director of the NASA Astrophysics Division, and Fabio Favata, ESA, next took questions pertaining to ongoing NASA-ESA discussions regarding Euclid and a possible NASA minority partnership in the Euclid project and perhaps a reciprocal ESA involvement in the WFIRST program. They were given the following questions prior to their appearance: • When is the deadline for NASA and ESA to firm their commitments to Euclid?
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Kahn also said that "LSST can achieve its scientific goals with respect to dark energy without relying on data from any other experiment or facility." Moving on to the relationship between LSST and WFIRST, he remarked that "LSST could benefit from complementary observations by WFIRST, depending on how WFIRST is designed." Dr. Kahn believed that DOE laboratories have technical contributions or hardware development activities that would benefit WFIRST, as evidenced by the role that Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have played in past astrophysics concepts and experiments such as the Supernova/Acceleration Probe, Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM)
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community support for WFIRST following Euclid-IR, even though WFIRST is a factor of several more powerful, and that this problem gets worse if WFIRST slips later and is seen to be cutting into flexibility for the next decade." Roger Blandford, Stanford University, and Chair of Astro2010, then described the NWNH survey process and its science objectives for the 2012-2021 decade. He was given the following questions prior to the meeting: • The top NWNH recommendations in large ground and space projects have a dark energy component.
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Blandford stated that the timely execution of a microlensing survey is important to the overall NWNH strategy for exoplanets. He added that the IR surveys enabled by WFIRST will contribute much to galactic and extragalactic astronomy, and the guest investigator program will add "much discovery space." With the exception of the coordinated monitoring programs, he did not believe most of this survey-enabled science is time-critical.
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, and if our community proposes an effort on Euclid, we will then investigate participation, depending on funding availability." On WFIRST, DOE HEP said it "will support our scientists on the WFIRST Science Definition Team (if selected) ," and that, "after the WFIRST concept is developed, DOE HEP will explore possible contributions if appropriate (consistent with Particle Astrophysics Scientific Assessment Group criteria)
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He asked for this report to be ready by mid-December so it could inform the final stages of the budget process leading up to the president's FY 2012 budget request due to be released in early February 2011.
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