Sentences with phrase «astrophysics decadal survey»

Following are some of the key points that arose regarding JWST and plans for the next astrophysics Decadal Survey.

NASA Science Mission Directorate head Thomas Zurbuchen is raising the possibility of delaying the next astrophysics Decadal Survey because of the JWST launch delay and uncertainty about the Wide - Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST).

JWST was the top priority for a large space - based mission in the 2000 astrophysics Decadal Survey.

Dressler chaired the panel of the NRC's 2010 astronomy and astrophysics decadal survey, New Worlds, New Horizons (NWNH), that recommended a mission called the Wide - Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) as the top priority for a large space mission for the next decade of space - based astrophysics research.

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Ray and his colleagues are working on a science case and design for STROBE - X which will then be assessed by the decadal survey for astrophysics in 2020.

Rieke is the principal investigator of Webb's NIRCam instrument, as well as the co-chair of the National Academies» Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics, a body that along with NASA, the National Science Foundation and the National Academies» Space Studies Board helps plan the decadal surveys.

It was recommended by the most recent decadal survey for astrophysics and remains one of NASA's top astrophysics priorities after the James Webb Space Telescope.

In the National Research Council's 2010 decadal survey of astronomy and astrophysics, researchers put it at the top of their wish list for ground - based telescopes.

WFIRST was the top - ranked big space mission in the 2010 decadal survey in astronomy and astrophysics, a list created by researchers to prioritize projects for the next ten years.

The White House has bleaker plans for WFIRST, which the U.S. space science community ranked as the highest priority for NASA's astrophysics program in the 2010 Decadal Survey.

Blandford said scientists participating in the decadal survey were told to assume NASA's astrophysics budget would remain flat or decline slightly in the decade ahead.

It has been recognized by the most recent National Academy of Sciences decadal survey in astronomy and astrophysics as an area that is ripe for new discoveries over the next decade, and one whose excitement we are pleased to share with our colleagues at NASA, with the scientific community, and with the American public.

Once that is done, NASA should convene additional independent reviews of the coronagraph and of whatever mission design NASA ultimately proposes as a new start «to ensure that the proposed mission cost and technical risk are consistent with available resources and do not significantly compromise the astrophysics balance» recommended by the Decadal Survey.

A prominent theme in today's report is a reminder that the fundamental tenet of the NWNH Decadal Survey is to maintain balance in NASA's astrophysics portfolio among large programs like WFIRST, smaller programs in the Explorer series, and the associated Research and Analysis (R&A) program «If implementing WFIRST / AFTA compromises the program balance then it is inconsistent with the rationale that led to the high priority ranking,» the Harrison committee warned.

A Wide Field Infra - Red Survey Telescope (WFIRST) was the top large space priority in the report of the ASTRO2010 Decadal Survey «New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics».

«WFIRST addresses fundamental and pressing scientific questions and will contribute to a broad range of astrophysics,» wrote the NRC's Astro2010 Decadal Survey.

Much of the hearing focused on the 2010 Decadal Survey for astronomy and astrophysics conducted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine and the next one that is now being planned.

The NRC's Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics provides strategic advice and oversight for the implementation of the decadal survey.

He also said that it is «not obvious» that NASA's proposal to delay the next Decadal Survey for astrophysics will be accepted.