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  title info:
    title: New worlds, new horizons in astronomy and astrophysics
  name:
    name part: National Research Council (U.S.)
    name part: Committee for a Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: National Academies Press (U.S.)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: dcu
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxxiii, 290 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color portrait ; 26 cm.
  abstract: Driven by discoveries, and enabled by leaps in technology and imagination, our understanding of the universe has changed dramatically over the course of the last few decades. The fields of astronomy and astrophysics are making new connections to physics, chemistry, biology and computer science. Based on a broad and comprehensive survey of scientific opportunities, infrastructure and organization in a national and international context, New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics outlines a plan for ground- and space- based astronomy and astrophysics for the decade of the 2010's. Realizing these scientific opportunities is contingent upon maintaining and strengthening the foundations of the research enterprise including technological development, theory, computation and data handling, laboratory experiments and human resources. New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics proposes enhancing innovative but moderate-cost programs in space and on the ground that will enable the community to respond rapidly and flexibly to new scientific discoveries. The book recommends beginning construction on survey telescopes in space and on the ground to investigate the nature of dark energy, as well as the next generation of large ground-based giant optical telescopes and a new class of space-based gravitational observatory to observe the merging of distant black holes and precisely test theories of gravity. New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics recommends a balanced and executable program that will support research surrounding the most profound questions about the cosmos. The discoveries ahead will facilitate the search for habitable planets, shed light on dark energy and dark matter and aid our understanding of the history of the universe and how the earliest stars and galaxies formed. The book is a useful resource for agencies supporting the field of astronomy and astrophysics, the Congressional committees with jurisdiction over those agenci…
  table of contents: 2020 vision -- On the threshold -- Partnership in astronomy and astrophysics: collaboration, cooperation, coordination -- Astronomy in society -- Sustaining the core research program -- Preparing for tomorrow -- Realizing the opportunities.
  note: Committee for a Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Board on Physics and Astronomy, Space Studies Board, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
    topic: Research
    topic: Forecasting
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
    topic: Research
    topic: Forecasting
  subject:
    topic: Research
    topic: International cooperation
  classification: QB61 .N385 2010
  classification: 520.72
  identifier: 9780309158022 (case bdg.)
  identifier: 0309158028 (case bdg.)
  identifier: 9780309157995 (pbk.)
  identifier: 0309157994 (pbk.)
  identifier: 9780309158008 (pdf)
  identifier: 0309158001 (pdf)
  identifier: 2010044515
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 101115
    record change date: 20151202115350.0
    record identifier: in00002685445