Future of Space Astronomy: A global Road Map for the next decades |
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| Authors: | Pietro Ubertini Neil Gehrels Ian Corbett Paolo de Bernardis Marcos Machado Matt Griffin Michael Hauser Ravinder K. Manchanda Nobuyuki Kawai Shuang-Nan Zhang Mikhail Pavlinsky |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology, INAF, Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Rome, Italy;2. Astroparticle Physics Laboratory, NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA;3. IAU–UAI Secretariat, F75014 Paris, France;4. Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, P.le A. Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy;5. Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales, 1063 Buenos Aires, Argentina;6. School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, The Parade, Cardiff CF24 3AA, UK;g Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA;h Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 400005 Mumbai, India;i Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan;j Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;k Russian Academy of Science, 117997 Moscow, Russia |
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| Abstract: | The use of space techniques continues to play a key role in the advance of astrophysics by providing access to the entire electromagnetic spectrum from radio to high energy γ rays. The increasing size, complexity and cost of large space observatories places a growing emphasis on international collaboration. Furthermore, combining existing and future datasets from space and “ground based” observatories is an emerging mode of powerful and relatively inexpensive research to address problems that can only be tackled by the application of large multi-wavelength observations. While the present set of astronomical facilities is impressive and covers the entire electromagnetic spectrum, with complementary space and “ground based” telescopes, the situation in the next 10–20 years is of critical concern. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), to be launched not earlier than 2018, is the only approved future major space astronomy mission. Other major highly recommended space astronomy missions, such as the Wide-field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), the International X-ray Observatory (IXO), Large Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) and the Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA), have yet to be approved for development. |
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| Keywords: | Future of Space Astronomy COSPAR Working Group |
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