Panel Reports - New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics - Softcover

Science Frontiers Panels; Program Prioritization Panels; Committee For A Decadal Survey Of Astronomy And Astrophysics; National Research Council

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0309159628 ISBN 13: 9780309159623

Publisher: National Academies Press, 2010

Synopsis

Every 10 years the National Research Council releases a survey of astronomy and astrophysics outlining priorities for the coming decade. The most recent survey, New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics, provides overall priorities and recommendations for the field as a whole based on a broad and comprehensive examination of scientific opportunities, infrastructure, and organisation in a national and international context. Panel Reports - New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics is a collection of reports, each of which addresses a key sub-area of the field. The reports were prepared by specialists in that sub-area, and each played an important role in setting overall priorities for the field. The collection, published in a single volume, includes the reports of the following panels: Cosmology and Fundamental Physics The Galactic Neighbourhood Galaxies Across Cosmic Time Planetary Systems and Star Formation Stars and Stellar Evolution Electromagnetic Observations from Space Optical and Infrared Astronomy from the Ground Particle Astrophysics and Gravitation Radio, Millimetre, and Submillimetre Astronomy from the Ground The Committee for a Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics synthesised these reports in the preparation of its prioritised recommendations for the field as a whole. These reports provide additional depth and detail in each of their respective areas. Taken together, they form an essential companion volume to New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics. The book of panel reports will be useful to managers of programs of research in the field of astronomy and astrophysics, the Congressional committees with jurisdiction over the agencies supporting this research, the scientific community, and the public.

Edition details

• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0309159628
• ISBN 13: 9780309159623
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 548