Page History
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| Primary Keyword | Secondary/Tertiary Keyword | White Paper Theme (i.e.,Title) | Willing to Lead | Willing to Participate |
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| Active Galactic Nuclei | Galaxy Formation and Evolution / High-redshift | AGN fueling and feedback over cosmic time | ||
| Astrochemistry | ||||
Chemical Abundances | ||||
| Circumgalactic Medium | Galaxy Formation and Evolution | |||
| Galaxy evolution; resolved stellar pops | Understanding the CGM Circumgalactic Medium is Critical for Understanding Galaxy FormationEvolution | Draft on Astro2020 slack channel: #cgm | ||
| Cosmology | The role of dwarf galaxies in cosmic reionization | |||
| Exoplanets | Yields of Future Direct Imaging Missions | Chris Stark | ||
| Gravitational Wave Counterparts | ||||
| Planetary Systems | Debris Disks | Debris Disks as tracers of planetary formation and evolution | ||
| Galaxy clusters | Galaxy Evolution; Structure formation | Assembly of the Most Massive Clusters at | Lead author is Jeyhan Kartaltepe (RIT) | |
| Galaxy Formation and Evolution | Star-forming galaxies | Spatially Resolved UV Nebular Diagnostics in Star-Forming Galaxies | Draft posted on Astro2020 slack channel, under #galactic_winds. | |
| High-redshift Galaxies | ||||
| Interstellar Medium | ||||
| Galaxy Formation and Evolution | The Nuclear Outflow at the Galactic Center | |||
| Dust | Local Group UV-MIR Extinction and UV Depletions | Karl Gordon | ||
| Large-scale Structure | Galaxy Redshift Surveys | The End of Galaxy Surveys | Lead author is Jason Rhodes (JPL) | Marc Postman |
| Local Group Galaxies | Kinematics / DM Halo profile of dwarf local group galaxies | |||
| Resolved stellar populations; galaxy formation and evolution | the power of wide fields for studies of M31; Focus on reconstructing M31's merger history | |||
| Resolved Stellar Populations | The Variability of the Initial Mass Function | |||
| Galaxy Formation and Evolution | Formation and assembly of the MW Bulge | |||
| Star Clusters | Young Stellar Cluster (~<10Myr) | |||
| Star Formation | Protostellar Evolution | Far-IR Variability of Protostars | ||
| Stellar Evolution | Martha Boyer | |||
| Stellar Populations | Globular clusters | Multiple populations | ||
| Galaxies | ||||
| Supermassive Black Holes | ||||
| Supernovae and Remnants | ||||
| Stellar Physics | Exo-Space Weather | Habitable Exoplanets from a Stellar Perspective – X-ray | ||
| Exo-Space Weather | Habitable Exoplanets from a Stellar Perspective – radio | |||
| Time Domain Astronomy |
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- Mar 2016 – The CAA began discussions about Astro 2020
- Jan 2017 – A Town Hall meeting at the AAS solicited community input on the framework of Astro 2020
- Jan 2018 – A Town Hall meeting at the AAS solicited community input on the framework of Astro 2020
- *Spring 2018 – A Decadal Survey “Consultation Group” was formed to draft the statement of task and prospectus for Astro 2020.
- Mar 2018 – The Astro 2020 proposal was submitted to NASA, NSF, and DOE
- Jul 2018 – The call for Astro 2020 white papers was released to the community
- Dec 2018 – Astro 2020 Chair will be selected marking the formal start of the survey
- Jan 2019 – A Town Hall meeting and other community outreach activities will be organized at the AAS.
- Jan 7th 2019 – Window for submitting white papers will open
- Feb 19Mar 11th 2019 – Deadline for submitting white papers
- Mar 20th 2019 - Deadline for submitting NOI
- Mar/Apr Feb/Mar 2019 – Decadal Survey committee begins meeting to discuss the survey
- May/Jun 2019 – Decadal Survey panels begin meeting to discuss white papers
- May 2020 – Decadal Survey panels complete their reports and deliver it to the main committee
- Aug 2020 – Review of survey and panel reports begins
- Dec 2020 – Astro 2020 is completed and the report is released to the agencies and the public
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