Explosive Transients in the Distant Universe A White Paper Submitted to the Decadal Survey Committee

Constraining Solar System impact history and evolution of the terrestrial planets with exploration of and samples from the Moon’s South Pole-Aitken Basin A white-paper submitted for consideration by the NRC Planetary Science Decadal Survey, Inner Planets Panel

Particle Acceleration in Stellar Remnants

A White Paper submitted to Astro2010: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey based in part on " The Status and Future of Ground-based TeV Gamma-ray Astronomy " , a White Paper prepared at the request of the Division of Astrophysics of the American Physical Society to summarize the status and future of ground-based γ-ray astronomy. The images above illustrate the richness available to fut...

The Warm Spitzer Mission: Prospects for Studies of the Distant Universe

IRAC excels at detecting distant objects. Due to a combination of the shapes of the spectral energy distributions of galaxies and the low background achieved from space, IRAC reaches greater depth in comparable exposure time at 3.6 and 4.5 μm than any groundor space-based facility currently can at 2.2 μm. Furthermore, the longer wavelengths probed by IRAC enable studies of the rest-frame optica...

The Spitzer Warm Mission: Prospects for Studies of the Distant Universe

IRAC excels at detecting distant objects. Due to a combination of the shapes of the spectral energy distributions of galaxies and the low background achieved from space, IRAC reaches greater depth in comparable exposure time at 3.6 and 4.5 μm than any groundor space-based facility currently can at 2.2 μm. Furthermore, the longer wavelengths probed by IRAC enable studies of the rest-frame optica...

Prospects for joint radio telescope and gravitational-wave searches for astrophysical transients

The radio skies remain mostly unobserved when it comes to transient phenomena. The direct detection of gravitational waves will mark a major milestone of modern astronomy, as an entirely new window will open on the universe. Two apparently independent phenomena can be brought together in a coincident effort that has the potential to boost both searches. In this paper we will outline the scienti...