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3 Conclusions and Recommendations
Pages 11-13

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... When combined with the results of the Kepler mission, WFIRST's gravitational microlensing planet search will produce a comprehensive demographic survey running from Mercuryscale orbits to beyond the snow line in hundreds of exo-solar systems, data that will provide an essential observational constraint on the physics of planet formation. The remarkable potential of a deep multiband, near-infrared galaxy survey over a large fraction of the sky and a stellar survey covering the galactic plane and halo will go unrealized without WFIRST.
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... While the U.S. role on the EST should be more carefully delineated through negotiations with the European Space Agency, it could, for example, involve leadership in Euclid legacy science, defined as providing value-added data products to the community that combine relevant ground and space data sets (including those from WFIRST)
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... The Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation are the predominant sources of support for two of the U.S.-led ground-based projects, the Dark Energy Survey and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. The degree to which these agreements might be coordinated with the proposed NASA participation in Euclid is a matter that the Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee, which is charged with considering interagency issues, could consider.
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