Decadal Survey ASTRO 2010 - White Papers submitted to Science Frontier Panels

All white papers that were submitted

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STScI Contributions

Planetary Systems and Star Formation

29.(PSF) Bridging the Gap Between Stars and Planets: The Formation and Early Evolution of Brown Dwarfs (Subhanjoy Mohanty; incl. Daniel Apai)

39.(PSF) Comparative Planetology: Transiting Exoplanet Science with JWST (Mark Clampin; incl. JWST Science Working Group, JWST Transits Working Group)

80.(PSF) Exoplanet Characterization and the Search for Life (James Kasting; incl. Bob Brown, Harry Ferguson, Marc Postman, Remi Soummer, Ron Allen)

101.(PSF) From Protostars to Planetary Systems: FUV Spectroscopy of YSOs, Protoplanetary Disks and Extrasolar Giant Planets (Paul Scowen; incl. Alex Fullerton)

223.(PSF) Science-Operational Metrics and Issues for the “Are We Alone?” Movement (Robert A. Brown)

254.(PSF) Study of Planetary Systems and Solar System Objects with JWST (George Sonneborn; incl. JWST Science Working Group)

306.(PSF) The Search for Habitable Environments and Life in the Universe (Victoria Meadows; incl. Bill Sparks)

329.(PSF) Understanding Habitability and Characterizing ExoEarths: The Role of Debris Disks (Aki Roberge; incl. Christine Chen, Remi Soummer)

Stars and Stellar Evolution

151.(SSE) Mass Transport Processes and their Roles in the Formation, Structure, and Evolution of Stars and Stellar Systems (Kenneth G. Carpenter; incl. R. Allen)

153.(SSE) Mass-Loss and Magnetic Fields as Revealed Through Stellar X-ray Spectroscopy (Rachel Osten)

214.(SSE) Radio Supernovae: Circum-Stellar Investigation (C.S.I.) of Supernova Progenitor Stars (Christopher Stockdale; incl. Nino Panagia)

217.(SSE) Resolved Stellar Populations in the Milky Way (Jason Kalirai)

229.(SSE, CFP) SN Science 2010-2020 (D. Andrew Howell; incl. Susana Deustua, Nino Panagia, Mario Livio, Adam Riess)

244.(SSE) Stellar Populations with JWST: the Beginning and the End (Margaret Meixner; incl. Massimo Stiavelli, Kathy Flanagan, Matt Mountain)

312.(SSE) The Stars as a Sun: Secular Variations of Cycling and Non-Cycling Stars (Jeffrey C. Hall; incl. Dave Soderblom)

313.(SSE) The time axis in stellar evolution (David R. Soderblom)

339.(SSE) White Dwarfs as Astrophysical Probes (Jason Kalirai)

352. X-Ray Studies of Stars and Planets with Ultrahigh Sensitivity and Resolution (Scott Wolk; incl. Rachel Osten)

The Galactic Neighborhood

73.(GAN, CFP) Dwarf Galaxies in 2010: Revealing Galaxy Formation’s Threshold and Testing the Nature of Dark Matter (James Bullock; incl. Andy Fruchter)

132.(GAN) Is the Stellar Initial Mass Function Universal? (Daniela Calzetti; incl. Tom Brown, Marc Postman)

137.(GAN) Lifecycle of Dust in Galaxies (Karl D. Gordon)

154.(GAN) Measuring Stellar Ages and the History of the Milky Way (Kevin R. Covey; incl. Jason Kairai)

174.(GAN) New Opportunities in Microlensing and Mesolensing (R Di Stefano; incl. Kailash Sahu)

209.(GAN, CFP, GCT) Project Lyman: Resolving the Physics Behind Reionization (Stephan R. McCandliss; incl. William Van Dyke Dixon, Massimo Stiavelli, Harry Ferguson, Claus Leitherer)

210.(GAN) Properties of Dark Matter Revealed by Astrometric Measurements of the Milky Way and Local Galaxies (Edward Shaya; incl. Roeland van der Marel, Ron Allen)

282.(GAN) The Formation and Evolution of Star Cluster Systems (Katherine Rhode; incl. Brad Whitmore, Paul Goudfrooij)

288.(GAN) The History of Star Formation in Galaxies (Thomas M. Brown; incl. Marc Postman)

290.(GAN) The Magellanic Clouds Survey: a Bridge to Nearby Galaxies (Paul Scowen; incl. Alex Fullerton)

296.(GAN) The Nuclei of Low-Mass Galaxies and the Search for the Smallest Massive Black Holes (Aaron Barth; incl. Roeland van der Marel)

302.(GAN) The Role of Dwarf Galaxies in Building Large Stellar Halos (Evan Kirby; incl. Jason Kalirai)

Galaxies across Cosmic Time

104.(GCT) Galaxies Across Cosmic Time with JWST (Rogier A. Windhorst; incl. Massimo Stiavelli, Kathy Flanagan, Matt Mountain)

135.(GCT) Large-scale, Optical/Near-IR Galaxy Surveys with a 4-m Space Telescope (Sara R. Heap; incl. Massimo Robberto)

184/185/186/187. O/IR Polarimetry for the 2010 Decade (GCT, GAN, PSF, SSE): Science at the Edge, Sharp Tools for All (Dean C. Hines, Dan Clemens, Jennifer L. Hoffman; incl. Bill Sparks)

215.(GCT) Reading the Metal Diaries of the Universe: Tracing Cosmic Chemical Evolution (Dieter Hartmann; incl. Mike Fall)

221.(GCT) Science Frontiers In Galaxy Evolution: Deep-Wide Surveys (Henry Ferguson; incl. Anton Koekemoer, Alberto Conti, Tomas Dahlen, Mike Fall, Norman Grogin, Mario Livio, Ray Lucas, Sami Matias-Niemi, Norbert Pizkal, Marc Postman)

270.(GAN, GCT) The Cosmic Web (Kenneth Sembach; incl. Marc Postman)

287.(GCT) The Growth of Supermassive Black Holes Across Cosmic Time (Kirpal Nandra; incl. Kathy Flanagan, Rachel Somerville, Anton Koekemoer, Massimo Stiavelli)

301.(GCT, CFP) The Quest For a Physical Understanding of Galaxies Across the Cosmic Time (Mauro Giavalisco; incl. Harry Ferguson, Marc Postman)

305.(GCT, ...) The Scientific Capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope (Jonathan P. Gardner; incl. JWST Science Working Group)

320.(GCT, CFP) Tracing the Mass Buildup of Supermassive Black Holes and their Host Galaxies (Anton Koekemoer; incl. Marc Postman, Rachel Somerville)

332.(GCT) Understanding Polarized Foreground from Dust: Towards Reliable Measurements of CMB Polarization (A. Lazarian; incl. Bill Sparks)

Cosmology and Fundamental Physics

43.(CFP) Coordinated Science in the Gravitational and Electromagnetic Skies (Josh Bloom; incl. Andy Fruchter)

52.(CFP) Dark Energy from a Space-Based Platform (Adam Riess; incl. Susana Deustua)

92.(CFP) First light and reionization : open questions in the post-JWST era (Massimo Stiavelli; incl. Kathy Flanagan, Matt Mountain)

194.(CFP) Photometric Calibrations for 21st Century Science (Stephen Kent; incl. Susana Deustua, Ralph Bohlin, Adam Riess)

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