Enduring Quests and Daring Visions

Enduring Quests and Daring Visions is a vision for astrophysics programs chartered by then-Director of NASA's Astrophysics Division, Paul Hertz, and released in late 2013.^[1] It lays out plans over 30 years as long-term goals and missions.^[1] Goals include mapping the Cosmic Microwave Background and finding Earth like exoplanets,^[2] to go deeper into space-time studying the Large Scale Structure of the Universe, extreme physics, and looking back farther in time.^[2] The panel that produced the vision included many notable American astrophysicists, including: Chryssa Kouveliotou, Eric Agol, Natalie Batalha, Misty Bentz, Alan Dressler, Scott Gaudi, Olivier Guyon, Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano, Feryal Ozel, Aki Roberge, Amber Straughn, and Joan Centrella.

A full-scale model of the James Webb Space Telescope in Texas, USA

Examples of discussed missions include:^[3]

• Astro-H (Hitomi)
• Black Hole Mapper
• CMB Polarization Surveyor
• Cosmic Dawn
• Euclid
• ExoEarth Mapper
• Gaia
• Gravitational Wave Surveyor/Mapper
• Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission (HabEx)
• Far-Infrared Surveyor (later renamed the Origins Space Telescope)
• JEM-EUSO
• James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
• Large UV Optical Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR)
• Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
• Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER)
• Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
• X-Ray Surveyor (later renamed the Lynx X-ray Observatory)

References

1. "NASA Lays Out Long-term Vision for Astrophysics - Moonandback". moonandback.com. 2013-12-22. Archived from the original on 2019-06-18. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
2. "Astrophysics Roadmap" (PDF). nasa.gov. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2017-07-12.
3. Hall, Shannon (17 January 2014). "Enduring Quests and Daring Visions: NASA Lays Out a Roadmap for Astrophysics - Universe Today". universetoday.com.

External links

• Enduring Quests and Daring Visions (NASA) (.pdf)