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Lunar Far-Side Radio Arrays: A Preliminary Site Survey
Zoe A. Le Conte, Martin Elvis, Philipp A. Gläser
The origin and evolution of structure in the Universe could be studied in the Dark Ages. The highly redshifted HI signal between 30 < z < 80 is the only observable signal from this…
Great Observatories: The Past and Future of Panchromatic Astrophysics
L. Armus, S. T. Megeath, L. Corrales +30
NASA's Great Observatories have opened up the electromagnetic spectrum from space, providing sustained access to wavelengths not accessible from the ground. Together, Hubble, Compt…
Furthering Asteroid Resource Utilization in the Next Decade through Technology Leadership
Chris Lewicki, Amara Graps, Martin Elvis +2
A significant opportunity for synergy between pure research and asteroid resource research exists. We provide an overview of the state of the art in asteroid resource utilization,…
The future of astronomy with small satellites
Stephen Serjeant, Martin Elvis, Giovanna Tinetti
The number of small satellites has grown dramatically in the past decade from tens of satellites per year in the mid-2010s to a projection of tens of thousands in orbit by the mid-…
The Crisis in Astrophysics and Planetary Science: How Commercial Space and Program Design Principles will let us Escape
Martin Elvis
Astrophysics and planetary science are in crisis. The large missions we need for the next generation of observations cost too much to let us do more than one at a time. This spread…
The Extreme Physics Explorer and Large Area Micro-Channel Plate Optics
Michael Garcia, Martin Elvis, Jon Chappell +10
The Extreme Physics Explorer (EPE) is a concept timing/spectroscopy mission that would use micro-channel plate optics (MCPO) to provide 4 square meters effective area focused to ~1…
High-resolution x-ray telescopes
S. L. O'Dell, R. J. Brissenden, W. N. Davis +21
High-energy astrophysics is a relatively young scientific field, made possible by space-borne telescopes. During the half-century history of x-ray astronomy, the sensitivity of foc…
A Vigorous Explorer Program
Martin Elvis, Matthew Beasley, Roger Brissenden +47
Explorers have made breakthroughs in many fields of astrophysics. The science from both these missions contributed to three Nobel Prizes - Giacconi (2002), Mather, and Smoot (2006)…
The Chandra survey of the COSMOS field II: source detection and photometry
S. Puccetti, C. Vignali, N. Cappelluti +15
The Chandra COSMOS Survey (C-COSMOS) is a large, 1.8 Ms, Chandra program, that covers the central contiguous ~0.92 deg^2 of the COSMOS field. C-COSMOS is the result of a complex ti…
Active Galactic Nuclei and their role in Galaxy Formation and Evolution
Steve Kraemer, Rogier Windhorst, Kenneth G. Carpenter +3
There are several key open questions as to the nature and origin of AGN including: 1) what initiates the active phase, 2) the duration of the active phase, and 3) the effect of the…
Low-Energy Astrophysics: Stimulating the Reduction of Energy Consumption in the Next Decade
P. J. Marshall, N. Bennert, E. S. Rykoff +27
In this paper we address the consumption of energy by astronomers while performing their professional duties. Although we find that astronomy uses a negligible fraction of the US e…