White papers and facilities papers – October 2019

In September, the Mid-Term Review Committee invited specific stakeholder groups to consult with the community and submit papers on their discipline in order to inform the review. In addition to the white papers, the committee invited shorter ‘facility papers’ that relate (but are not restricted) to mid-scale facilities not likely to be covered in the white papers. A mini-demographics survey will also be conducted at the departmental level. The survey will request no personal information.

Solicited white papers

• AAT/SSO
• Data and HPC
• ESO and ELTS (including optical instrumentation)
• Gravitational waves
• Multi-messenger/high-energy
• SKA and pathfinders (including radio instrumentation)
• Space

Facilities papers

• An Australian Space Telescope Institute and Data Centre
• Antarctic optical/IR/THz facilities and science
• Fast Radio Burst facilities and science
• Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
• Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer
• Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory

Other papers

• Data science and astronomy: careers and pathways
• Demographics
• Diversity
• Carbon emissions in astronomy