Enduring Quests and Daring Visions is a vision for astrophysics programs chartered by then-Director of NASA's Astrophysics Division, Paul Hertz, and released in late 2013.[1] It lays out plans over 30 years as long-term goals and missions.[1] Goals include mapping the Cosmic Microwave Background and finding Earth like exoplanets,[2] to go deeper into space-time studying the Large Scale Structure of the Universe, extreme physics, and looking back farther in time.[2] The panel that produced the vision included many notable American astrophysicists, including: Chryssa Kouveliotou, Eric Agol, Natalie Batalha, Misty Bentz, Alan Dressler, Scott Gaudi, Olivier Guyon, Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano, Feryal Ozel, Aki Roberge, Amber Straughn, and Joan Centrella.
Examples of discussed missions include:[3]
- Astro-H (Hitomi)
- Black Hole Mapper
- CMB Polarization Surveyor
- Cosmic Dawn
- Euclid
- ExoEarth Mapper
- Gaia
- Gravitational Wave Surveyor/Mapper
- Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission (HabEx)
- Far-Infrared Surveyor (later renamed the Origins Space Telescope)
- JEM-EUSO
- James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
- Large UV Optical Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR)
- Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
- Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER)
- Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
- X-Ray Surveyor (later renamed the Lynx X-ray Observatory)
References
edit- ^ a b "NASA Lays Out Long-term Vision for Astrophysics - Moonandback". moonandback.com. 2013-12-22. Archived from the original on 2019-06-18. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
- ^ a b "Astrophysics Roadmap" (PDF). nasa.gov. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2017-07-12.
- ^ Hall, Shannon (17 January 2014). "Enduring Quests and Daring Visions: NASA Lays Out a Roadmap for Astrophysics - Universe Today". universetoday.com.