Future of Space Astronomy: A global Road Map for the next decades

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作者
Ubertini, Pietro [1 ]
Gehrels, Neil [2 ]
Corbett, Ian [3 ]
de Bernardis, Paolo [4 ]
Machado, Marcos [5 ]
Griffin, Matt [6 ]
Hauser, Michael [7 ]
Manchanda, Ravinder K. [8 ]
Kawai, Nobuyuki [9 ]
Zhang, Shuang-Nan [10 ]
Pavlinsky, Mikhail [11 ]
机构
[1] INAF, Inst Space Astrophys & Planetol, I-00133 Rome, Italy
[2] NASA GSFC, Astroparticle Phys Lab, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[3] IAU UAI Secretariat, F-75014 Paris, France
[4] Univ Roma La Sapienza, Dept Phys, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[5] Comis Nacl Actividades Espaciales, RA-1063 Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina
[6] Cardiff Univ, Sch Phys & Astron, Cardiff CF24 3AA, S Glam, Wales
[7] Space Telescope Sci Inst, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
[8] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Bombay 400005, Maharashtra, India
[9] Tokyo Inst Technol, Dept Phys, Tokyo 1528551, Japan
[10] Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Particle Astrophys, Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
[11] Russian Acad Sci, Moscow 117997, Russia
关键词
Future of Space Astronomy; COSPAR Working Group; INTEGRAL OBSERVATIONS; PLANCK; SKY; PERFORMANCE; MISSION; CLUSTER; IBIS;
D O I
10.1016/j.asr.2012.03.009
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V [航空、航天];
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08 ; 0825 ;
摘要
The use of space techniques continues to play a key role in the advance of astrophysics by providing access to the entire electromagnetic spectrum from radio to high energy gamma rays. The increasing size, complexity and cost of large space observatories places a growing emphasis on international collaboration. Furthermore, combining existing and future datasets from space and "ground based" observatories is an emerging mode of powerful and relatively inexpensive research to address problems that can only be tackled by the application of large multi-wavelength observations. While the present set of astronomical facilities is impressive and covers the entire electromagnetic spectrum, with complementary space and "ground based" telescopes, the situation in the next 10-20 years is of critical concern. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), to be launched not earlier than 2018, is the only approved future major space astronomy mission. Other major highly recommended space astronomy missions, such as the Wide-field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), the International X-ray Observatory (IXO), Large Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) and the Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA), have yet to be approved for development. A "Working Group on the Future of Space Astronomy" was established at the 38th COSPAR Assembly held in Bremen, Germany in July 2010. The purpose of this Working Group was to establish a Road Map for future major space missions to complement future large "ground based" telescopes. This paper presents the results of this study, including a number of recommendations and a Road Map for the next decades of space astronomy research. (C) 2012 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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