COPAG Analysis: Large Mission Studies, Decadal Survey 2020

Final Reports on Large Astrophysics Mission Concepts to Study for the 2020 Decadal Survey

• COPAG Final Report


• PhysPAG Final Report
• ExoPAG Final Report

Thank you for your numerous and helpful comments. Please join our author list by sending an email to COPAG_Contact@bigbang.gsfc.nasa.gov

COPAG Requests Community Input

• COPAG Call for White Papers: Large Astrophysics Missions to Be Studied by NASA Prior to the 2020 Decadal Survey [PDF]

Face-to-Face Meetings

• Upcoming
• COPAG meetings at AAS in Kissammee, FL, Monday January 4, 2016, including SIG meetings
• Previous
• August 3-14, at IAU, COR Table, NASA Booth (312), Exhibit Hall. COPAG EC members seeking your input.
• August 7, 1-4 P.M. (7-10 P.M. EDT), Joint PAG Meeting at IAU, Room 323. [Agenda]
• Joint PAG EC meeting, STSci, March 19, 2015, 9:00 A.M.–4:00 P.M.
• Presentations [PDF]
• Far IR Surveyor Workshop, Pasadena, CA, June 3–5, 2015
• Far-IR Workshop Final Report
• ExoPAG Meeting, Chicago, IL, June 13–14, 2015
• UV/Vis SIG Meeting, June 25–26, 2015, Greenbelt, MD
• Report on Flagship Studies [PDF]
• PhysPAG Community Meeting at HEAD meeting, Chicago, IL, June 29–July 1, 2015

Web Meetings

• Upcoming
• TBA

• Previous
• Thursday, August 20, 2015, 01:00 - 03:00 EDT
• COPAG Virtual Town Hall to discuss community input and COPAG report. Call-in and WebEx information.
• Presentation [PDF]
• Tuesday, March 10, 2015, 03:00 - 04:00 EDT
• COPAG Virtual Town Hall
  Presentation [PDF]

Presentations to PhysPAG

• Far-IR Surveyor Concept [PDF]
• X-ray Surveyor: Science drivers and strawman mission design [PDF]
• Large UV/Optical/IR Telescope Surveyor [PDF]
• HabEx: Notional Mission Properties and Science Applications [PDF]

White Paper Responses from the Community

• COPAG Merged White Papers, May 18, 2015 [PDF]
• 2012 Request for Information (RFI2012) - Responses


• Science Cases for Ultraviolet Polarimetry in the 21st Century [PDF] - B-G. Anderson
• Mapping Turbulent Energy Dissipation through Shocked Molecular Hydrogen in the Universe [PDF] - P. Appleton
• Are Flagships the Best Way to Advance Astrophysics? [PDF] - D. Ardila
• Cubesats for Astrophysics [PDF] - D. Ardila
• The Dusty Co-evolution of Black Holes and Galaxies: A Science Case for a Large Far-IR Space Telescope [PDF] - L. Armus
• Actuated Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Mirror Development [PDF] - B. Baldauf et al.
• Astrophysics Enabled by Extreme Contrast Ratio Technologies [PDF] - D. Batcheldor
• A FIR-Survey of TNOs and Related Bodies [PDF] - J. Bauer et al.
• Unlocking the Secrets of Planet Formation with Hydrogen Deuteride [PDF] - E. Bergin
• Cryogenic Telescope for Far-Infrared Astrophysics: A Vision for NASA in the 2020 Decade [PDF] - C. Bradford et al.
• Imaging Polarimetry for ExoPlanet science & astrophysics [PDF] - J. Breckinridge
• Dust in Distant Galaxies - Overcoming Confusion Noise with a 5m FIR Facility [PDF] - C. Casey et al.
• Far-Infrared Spectral Line Studies of the Epoch of Reionization [PDF] - A. Cooray et al.
• A Joint Exoplanet & UVOIR Surveyor [PDF] - J. Dalcanton
• The earliest epoch of star-formation in the very young universe [PDF] - D. Ebbets
• Characterizing the Habitable Zones of Exoplanetary Systems with a Large Ultraviolet/Visible/Near-IR Space Observatory [PDF] - K. France et al.
• The bulk composition of exo-planets [PDF] - Boris Gänsicke et al.
• Flagship Missions for the Decadal Review [PDF] - J. Green
• Life Finder Telescope [PDF] - S. Heap
• Galaxy Evolution Spectroscopic Surveyor (GESS) [PDF] - S. Heap
• Precision Ages for Milky Way Star Clusters [PDF] - J. Kalirai
• Interferometry Concept for the Far-Infrared Surveyor [PDF] - D. Leisawitz et al.
• Importance of Design Reference Missions for Developing the Next Large Mission Concepts [PDF] - P. Lightsey and E. Wilkinson
• An Evolvable Space Telescope for the Far Infrared Surveyor Mission [PDF] - C. Lillie et al.
• Exoplanet Environment Monitor [PDF] - J. Linsky et al.
• Definitive Determination of Galaxy Luminosity Functions at Energies Above the Hydrogen Ionization Edge, Covering 11 Billion Years of Evolution [PDF] - S. McCandliss
• Probing Transient Structures in the Universe [PDF] - P. Natarajan
• An Evolvable Space Telescope for Future UV/Opt/IR Astronomical Missions [PDF] - R. Polidan et al.
• A Rotating Synthetic Aperture (RSA) Space Telescope for Future UV/Opt/IR Astronomical Missions [PDF] - R. Polidan et al.
• UVOIR Surveyor: The need for high resolution, wide field, deep multi-wavelength imaging and IFU spectroscopy [PDF] - R. Rampazzo et al.
• Probe class missions in the far infrared [PDF] - J. Rizzo et al.
• The First Stars and the First Metals [PDF] - I. Roederer et al.
• The Origin of the Elements Heavier than Iron [PDF] - I. Roederer et al.
• HabX2: a 2020 mission concept for flagship science at modest cost [PDF] - M. Swain et al.
• Listening to the Cosmic Dawn [PDF] - I. Thorpe et al.
• A Large-Aperture UVOIR Space Telescope [PDF] - H. Thronson et al.
• Galaxy Fueling and Quenching: A Science Case for Future UV MOS Capability [PDF] - J. Tumlinson and D. Schiminovich
• UV/Optical/IR Surveyor: The Crucial Role of High Spatial Resolution, High Sensitivity UV Observations to Galaxy Evolution Studies [PDF] - B. Williams and J. Dalcanton

Science Division Documents

• Paul Hertz Charge to the PAGs for 2020 Decadal Planning
• Paul Hertz AAS PAG Plenary Presentation, Jan 2015
• Astrophysics Road Map: Enduring Quests, Daring Visions: NASA Astrophysics in the Next Three Decades - December 20, 2013
• 2010 Astrophysics Decadal Report


• HQ Astrophysics Science Documents

Supporting Documents

• TPF-C Levine paper (see science goals, Sec. 2) [PDF]
• The New Worlds Observer [PDF]
• AURA Report: From Cosmic Birth to Living Earths [PDF]

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