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... OIR System that includes a telescope time exchange designed to enhance science return by broadening access to capabilities for a diverse community; an ongoing planning process to identify and construct next-generation capabilities to realize decadal science priorities; and near-term critical coordination, planning, training, and instrumentation needed to usher in the era of LSST and giant telescopes. The guiding principles used by the National Research Council's (NRC's)
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... and motivated by the guiding principles above. The committee did not have a budget or guidelines for funding; these recommendations are based on science considerations and provided as advice for the National Science Foundation (NSF)
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... The National Science Foundation should support the development of a wide-field, highly multiplexed spectroscopic capability on a medium- or large-aperture telescope in the Southern Hemisphere to enable a wide variety of science, including follow-up spectroscopy of Large Synoptic Survey Telescope targets. Examples of enabled science are studies of cosmology, galaxy evolution, quasars, and the Milky Way.
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... Recommendation 5. The National Science Foundation should plan for an investment in one or both Giant Segmented Mirror Telescopes in order to capi talize on these observatories' exceptional scientific capabilities for the broader astronomical community in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope era, for ex ample, through shared operations costs, instrument development, or limited term partnerships in telescope or data access or science projects.
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... The National Science Foundation (NSF) should continue to invest in the development of critical instrument technologies, including detectors, adaptive/active optics, and precision radial velocity measurements.


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