PPT-Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets (AFTA

Presentation to P Hertz April 19 2013 Neil Gehrels GSFC SDT CoChair David Spergel Princeton SDT CoChair Kevin Grady GSFC Study Manager amp Project Team. Ritva. A. Keski-Kuha, Charles W. Bowers, Manuel A. Quijada. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. James B. Heaney, SGT Inc. Greenbelt. Benjamin Gallagher, Ball. . Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Andrew McKay Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems. NASA’s . Dark Energy Program. Linda . Sparke. (NASA HQ) . January 5, 2014. PhysPAG. @ AAS. © . 2013, . government sponsorship acknowledged. . 2004:. Dark Universe Mission Theme proposed to ESA’s Cosmic Vision programme. Instrument. reference information. July. . 1, . 2015. The information in this file is excerpted from the SDT report dated March 10, 2015 (. Spergel. et al. arXiv:1503.03757) and from the February 13, 2015 SDT briefing to Paul Hertz. Both are accessible from the WFIRST site: . Imaging Coronagraph: . ExoPIC. Macintosh, . Traub. , . Kasdin. , Greene, Breckinridge, . Staplefeldt. , Marcy, . Savransky. , et al.. May and July. 1. Stanford Meetings. Ongoing series of science/engineering workshops. Imaging Science with the WFIRST Coronagraph. AAS Conference 2015. N. Jeremy Kasdin. Bruce Macintosh, Olivier . Guyon. , Tom Green, Wes . Traub. , Jim . Breckinridge. and. The WFIRST/AFTA Coronagraph Engineering team. Status Report -- . ExoPAG. Feng Zhao. AFTA Coronagraph Instrument Manager. 1/5 2014. 1. Copyright 2013 California Institute of Technology. Government sponsorship acknowledged. Outline. Introduction. Newly selected architecture description. Nicholas E. White, NASA/GSFC. On behalf of the Athena Study Team. Revealing the Extreme Universe from Black Holes to Large Scale Structure. New L-class boundary conditions. Programmatic assumptions:. Is . cosmic acceleration . caused by . a new energy component or by . the breakdown . of General Relativity (GR) . on cosmological . scales. ?. If . the cause is a new . energy component. , is its energy density . M87. Studying the Cosmos through..... . Observations. Theory. Experiment. Astro @ Purdue. Astro @ Purdue. 9 . research-active faculty members covering a wide range of topics. Group includes postdoctoral scholars, staff scientists and students. Status Report -- . ExoPAG. Feng Zhao. AFTA Coronagraph Instrument Manager. 1/5 2014. 1. Copyright 2013 California Institute of Technology. Government sponsorship acknowledged. Outline. Introduction. Newly selected architecture description. Why is it important?. Black holes. ExoPlanets. Specialized Skills. Earnings/Wages. Related Jobs. Future Trends. Conclusion. Table of Contents. Many people believe that there are no new discoveries left to be made in astrophysics. . Patrick Roche. Oxford University. An Awesome Arsenal of Astronomical Facilities. Enormous scientific power. Formidable Data rates giving real challenges in efficient exploitation and community access. Tom Greene and Wes Traub. 1. ExoPAG-8 . Meeting, Denver CO. 5. . October 2013. © 2013 California Institute of Technology. Government sponsorship acknowledged.. The AFTA Mission. The 2010 Decadal Survey recommended WFIRST, a wide-field infrared survey telescope, for dark energy and exoplanets (gravitational microlensing). ronomy Astrophysics 586 49