Radio Community & Astro2010: Science White Papers

Cosmology and Fundamental Physics (CFP)

• 21 cm Intensity Mapping
  Jeffrey B. Peterson (Carnegie Mellon) et al.
• Active Galaxies and Quasars, 2010-2020
  Martin Elvis (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) et al.
• The Astrophysics of Ultra-compact Binaries
  G. Nelemans (Radboud Univ. Nijmegen) et al.
• Beaming Selection and SN-GRB-Jets Evolution
  D.Fargion (Univ. Sapienza) et al.
• The Behavior of Matter Under Extreme Conditions
  F. Paerels (Columbia) et al.
• The Billion Galaxy Cosmological HI Large Deep Survey
  Steven T. Myers (NRAO) et al.
• Calibrating Galaxy Clusters as a Tool for Cosmology via Studies of the Intracluster Medium
  S. R. Golwala (Caltech) et al.
• Clusters and Large-Scale Structure: The Synchrotron Keys
  Lawrence Rudnick (Univ. of Minnesota) et al.
• Coordinated Science in the Gravitational and Electromagnetic Skies
  Joshua S. Bloom (Univ. of California) et al.
• Cosmology from the Highly-Redshifted 21 cm Line
  Steven R. Furlanetto (Univ. of California) et al.
• Cosmology With Water-vapor Megmasers
  J. A. Braatz (NRAO) et al.
• The Dark-side of Reionization: Probing Cooling in the Early Universe
  Philip Appleton (California Institute of Technology) et al.
• Diffuse Baryonic Matter Beyond 2020
  M. Markevitch (NASA/CXC/CfA) et al.
• The Dynamic Radio Sky: An Opportunity for Discovery
  J. Lazio (NRL) et al.
• Estimation of the Hubble Constant and Constraint on Descriptions of Dark Energy
  Lincoln Greenhill (CfA) et al.
• The Exploration of the Unknown
  K. I. Kellermann (NRAO) et al.
• Extreme Astrophysics with Neutron Stars
  Dong Lai (Cornell) et al.
• Finding and Using Electromagnetic Counterparts of Gravitational Wave Sources
  E. Sterl Phinney (Caltech)
• From Molecular to Highly-Charged Ions: Expansion of Laboratory Astrophysics Through Use of the Electrostatic Storage Ring and Electron Beam Ion Trap
  Dr. Ara Chutjian (JPL) et al.
• Galaxy Cluster Astrophysics and Cosmology: Questions and Opportunities for the Coming Decade
  Steven T. Myers (NRAO) et al.
• Gravitational Wave Astronomy Using Pulsars: Massive Black Hole Mergers & the Early Universe
  P. Demorest (NRAO) et al.
• Ground-Based Astrometry 2010-2020
  Todd J. Henry (Georgia State University) et al.
• Imaging the Cool Gas, Dust, Star Formation, and AGN in the First Galaxies
  C. Carilli (NRAO) et al.
• Imaging an Event Horizon: submm-VLBI of a Super Massive Black Hole
  Sheperd Doeleman (MIT Haystack Observatory) et al.
• Is There a Need for an Improved Celestial Reference Frame?
  Kenneth Johnston (USNO) et al.
• The Need for Plasma Astrophysics in Understanding Life Cycles of Active Galaxies
  H. Li (LANL) et al.
• Observing the Evolution of the Universe
  Lyman Page (Princeton) et al.
• Origin and Evolution of Cosmic Accelerators - The Unique Discovery Potential of an UHE Neutrino Telescope
  Pisin Chen (Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology) et al.
• The Origin of the Universe as Revealed Through the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background
  Scott Dodelson (Univ. of Chicago) et al.
• A Panchromatic Search for Light Bosons in Astrophysical Environments
  Doron Chelouche (CITA, Univ. of Toronto, Canada) et al.
• Plasma Physics in Clusters of Galaxies
  Benjamin D. G. Chandran (Univ. of New Hampshire) et al.
• Probing Fundamental Constant Evolution with Astronomical Spectroscopy
  N. Kanekar (NRAO)
• The Promise of Low-Frequency Gravitational Wave Astronomy
  Tom Prince (Caltech/JPL) et al.
• Radio Detection of UHE-Neutrinos: Cosmic Tracers of the High Energy Universe
  Glen Langston (West Virginia U., Vanderbilt U., NRAO) et al.
• Solar and Heliospheric Physics with Low Frequency Radio Arrays
  Justin C. Kasper (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) et al.
• Spin and Relativistic Phenomena Around Black Holes
  L. Brenneman et al.
• Strong Gravitational Lensing as a Probe of Gravity, Dark Matter, and Supermassive Black Holes
  L.V.E. Koopmans (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute) et al.
• Strong Gravitational Lensing Probes of the Particle Nature of Dark Matter
  Leonidas A. Moustakas (JPL/Caltech) et al.
• Tests of Gravity and Neutron Star Properties from Precision Pulsar Timing and Interferometry
  J. Cordes (Cornell) et al.
• Tracing the Cosmic Star Formation History to its Beginnings: Gamma-Ray Bursts as Tools
  Dieter H. Hartmann (Clemson) et al.
• Understanding Polarized Foreground from Dust: Towards Reliable Measurements of CMB Polarization
  Alex Lazarian (Univ. of Wisconsin) et al.