IPAC co-led Astro2020 White Papers
Below is a list of Astro2020 White Papers that are co-led by IPAC scientists. The papers are sorted by topic.
Measurement of the Free-Floating Planet Mass Function with Simultaneous Euclid and WFIRST Microlensing Parallax Observations -
Penny et al. (including: Akeson, R.; Calchi Novati, S.)
Opportunities for Astrophysical Science from the Inner and Outer Solar System -
Zemcov et al. (including: Chary, R.)
Modeling Debris Disk Evolution -
Gaspar et al. (including: Meshkat, T.)
Increasing the Discovery Space in Astrophysics: The Exploration Question for Planetary Systems -
Fabbiano et al. (including: Berriman, B.; Mazzarella, J.)
Discovery of Cold Brown Dwarfs or Free-Floating Giant Planets Close to the Sun -
Leggett et al. (including: Kirkpatrick, J.)
The Need for Infrared Astrometry of Brown Dwarfs in the Post-Gaia Era -
Kirkpatrick et al. (including: Kirkpatrick, J.; Henderson, C.)
High-Energy Photon and Particle Effects on Exoplanet Atmospheres and Habitability -
Drake et al. (including: Gelino, D.)
'Auxiliary' Science with the WFIRST Microlensing Survey -
Gaudi et al. (including: Akeson, R.; Henderson, C.)
Tracing the Origins and Evolution of Small Planets using Their Orbital Obliquities -
Johnson et al. (including: Ciardi, D.)
Realizing the Promise of High-Contrast Imaging: More Than 100 Gas-Giant Planets with Masses, Orbits, and Spectra Enabled by Gaia+WFIRST Astrometry -
Brandt et al. (including: Meshkat, T.)
Substellar Multiplicity Throughout the Ages -
Bardalez Gagliuffi et al. (including: Gelino, C.)
Brown Dwarfs and Directly Imaged Exoplanets in Young Associations -
Faherty et al. (including: Kirkpatrick, J.)
Imaging Cool Giant Planets in Reflected Light: Science Investigations and Synergy with Habitable Planets -
Marley et al. (including: Gelino, D.)
The Scientific Context of WFIRST, Microlensing in the 2020s -
Yee et al. (including: Akeson, R.; Calchi Novati, S.; Henderson, C.)
A Balancing Act: Biosignature and Anti-Biosignature Studies in the Next Decade and Beyond -
Harman et al. (including: Gelino, D.)
Engaging Citizen Scientists to Keep Transit Times Fresh and Ensure the Efficient Use of Transiting Exoplanet Characterization Missions -
Zellem et al. (including: Ciardi, D.)
Mapping out the time-evolution of exoplanet processes -
Christiansen et al. (including: Ciardi, D.; Christiansen, J.)
Exoplanet Diversity in the Era of Space-based Direct Imaging Missions -
Kopparapu et al. (including: Gelino, D.)
Understanding Exoplanet Atmospheres with UV Observations II: The Far UV and Atmospheric Escape -
Lopez et al. (including: Christiansen, J.)
The Future of Exoplanet Direct Detection -
Monnier et al. (including: Akeson, R.)
Wide-Orbit Exoplanet Demographics -
Bennett et al. (including: Akeson, R.; Calchi Novati, S.; Christiansen, J.; Fulton, B.; Henderson, C.)
Imaging the Key Stages of Planet Formation -
Monnier et al. (including: Akeson, R.)
The Demographics and Atmospheres of Giant Planets with the ELTs -
Bowler et al. (including: Meshkat, T.)
Masses and Distances of Planetary Microlens Systems with High Angular Resolution Imaging -
Bhattacharya et al. (including: Akeson, R.; Ciardi, D.; Henderson, C.)
Planetary Science with Astrophysical Assets: Defining the Core Capabilities of Platforms -
Bauer et al. (including: Carey, S.)
Stellar Physics and Galactic Archaeology using Asteroseismology in the 2020's -
Huber et al. (including: Christiansen, J.)
Ultra Deep Field Science with WFIRST -
Koekemoer et al. (including: Capak, P.)
Cosmic Dawn and Reionization: Astrophysics in the Final Frontier -
Cooray et al. (including: Appleton, P.; Armus, L.; Chary, R.)
Towards a Theory for Star Formation on All Scales -
Murphy et al. (including: Armus, L.)
Outline of Analysis Studies Conducted by NASA Cosmic Origins Program Analysis Group Members During the Past 10 Years -
Scowen et al. (including: Lee, J.)
The Nature of Low-Density Star Formation -
Thilker et al. (including: Capak, P.; Lee, J.; Cook, D.)
The Life Cycle of Dust -
Sadavoy et al. (including: Armus, L.; Paladini, R.)
The IMF at Very Low Mass Using Near-IR Surveys from Space: The Need for Deep K-band Imaging -
Stauffer et al. (including: Kirkpatrick, J.; Carey, S.)
Increasing the Discovery Space in Astrophysics: The Exploration Question for Galaxy Evolution -
Fabbiano et al. (including: Berriman, B.; Mazzarella, J.)
Observing Galaxy Evolution in the Context of Large-Scale Structure -
Dickinson et al. (including: Chary, R.; Wang, Y.; Capak, P.; Lee, J.; Helou, G.)
Empirically Constraining Galaxy Evolution -
Behroozi et al. (including: Wang, Y.)
Increasing the Discovery Space in Astrophysics: The Exploration Question for Resolved Stellar Populations -
Fabbiano et al. (including: Berriman, B.; Mazzarella, J.)
Cold Gas Outflows, Feedback, and the Shaping of Galaxies -
Bolatto et al. (including: Armus, L.)
Infrared Stellar Populations: Probing the Beginning and the End -
Meixner et al. (including: Armus, L.)
Increasing the Discovery Space in Astrophysics: The Exploration Question for Compact Objects -
Fabbiano et al. (including: Berriman, B.; Mazzarella, J.)
Increasing the Discovery Space in Astrophysics: The Exploration Question for Stars and Stellar Evolution -
Fabbiano et al. (including: Berriman, B.; Mazzarella, J.)
Taking Census of Massive, Star-Forming Galaxies formed \<1 Gyr After the Big Bang -
Casey et al. (including: Armus, L.; Capak, P.)
Precision Analysis of Evolved Stars -
Ridgway et al. (including: Akeson, R.)
Robustly Mapping the Distribution of Star Formation in High-z Galaxies -
Murphy et al. (including: Armus, L.; Chary, R.; Capak, P.)
Extremely obscured galaxy nuclei \textemdash hidden AGNs and extreme starbursts -
Aalto et al. (including: Armus, L.)
Gravity and Light: Combining Gravitational Wave and Electromagnetic Observations in the 2020s -
Foley et al. (including: Cook, D.)
The Dynamic Infrared Sky -
Kasliwal et al. (including: Helou, G.)
Cosmic voids: a novel probe to shed light on our Universe -
Pisani et al. (including: Wang, Y.)
The Chemical Enrichment History of the Universe -
Smith et al. (including: Armus, L.)
Opportunities in Time-Domain Extragalactic Astrophysics with the NASA Near-Earth Object Camera (NEOCam) -
Ross et al. (including: Kirkpatrick, J.)
Simultaneous Measurements of Star Formation and Supermassive Black Hole Growth in Galaxies -
Pope et al. (including: Appleton, P.; Armus, L.; Chary, R.; Capak, P.)
Warm H2 as a probe of massive accretion and feedback through shocks and turbulence across cosmic time -
Appleton et al. (including: Appleton, P.; Armus, L.; Capak, P.; Helou, G.)
On the Origins of the Initial Mass Function -
Paladini et al. (including: Armus, L.; Paladini, R.)
Unveiling Cosmic Dawn: the synergetic role of space and ground-based telescopes -
Cuby et al. (including: Capak, P.)
The Multidimensional Milky Way -
Sanderson et al. (including: Armus, L.; Grillmair, C.)
Cosmology in the 2020s Needs Precision and Accuracy: The Case for Euclid/LSST/WFIRST Joint Survey Processing -
Chary et al. (including: Armus, L.; Chary, R.; Faisst, A.; Helou, G.)
Unsolved Problems in Modern Astrophysics: Anomalous Microwave Emission -
Murphy et al. (including: Paladini, R.; Helou, G.)
Cosmological Synergies Enabled by Joint Analysis of Multi-probe data from WFIRST, Euclid, and LSST -
Rhodes et al. (including: Chary, R.; Wang, Y.)
Increasing the Discovery Space in Astrophysics: The Exploration Question for Cosmology -
Fabbiano et al. (including: Berriman, B.; Mazzarella, J.)
Dark Matter Physics with Wide Field Spectroscopic Surveys -
Li et al. (including: Grillmair, C.)
The End of Galaxy Surveys -
Rhodes et al. (including: Capak, P.)
WFIRST: The Essential Cosmology Space Observatory for the Coming Decade -
Dore et al. (including: Capak, P.)
Partnering space and ground observatories - Synergies in cosmology from LSST and WFIRST -
Eifler et al. (including: Capak, P.)
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