GBT Astro2020 Star Formation

Introduction

If you are interested in participating in the GBT Astro2020 efforts, please send an email to gbo_2020@nrao.edu indicating which of the science discussions you would like to join.

If you have any questions, please contact Ryan Lynch (rlynch@nrao.edu) or Toney Minter (tminter@nrao.edu), who are the Green Bank coordinators for the GBT Fundamental Physics and Cosmology groups.

Documentation and Links

• GBO Astro2020 Web Page
• National Academies Astro2020 Web Page
• GBT Fundamental Physics Group Mailing List: gbo_astro2020_physics@listmgr.nrao.edu
• GBT Cosmology and Large Scale Structure Mailing List: gbo_astro2020_cosmology@listmgr.nrao.edu
• Note that we will be combining these mailing lists and groups to better reflect the focus areas of the Decadal Survey
• GBT Fundamnetal Physics Astro2020 Google Drive
• GBT Cosmology and Large Scale Structure Astro2020 Google Drive

Submitted Science White Papers

• Gravitational Waves, Extreme Astrophysics, and Fundamental Physics with Precision Pulsar Timing — Primary Authors: James Cordes (Cornell Univeristy) and Maura McLaughlin (West Virginia University)
• Supermassive Black-hole Demographics & Environments with Pulsar Timing Arrays — Primary Authors: Stephen R. Taylor (California Institute of Technology) and Sarah Burke-Spolaor (West Virginia University)
• Fundamental Physics with Radio Millisecond Pulsars — Principal Author: Emmanuel Fonseca (McGill University)
• Physics Beyond the Standard Model with Pulsar Timing Arrays — Principal Authors: Xavier Siemens (University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee) and Jeffrey Hazboun (Univeristy of Washington – Bothell)
• Multi-Messenger Astrophysics with Pulsar Timing Arrays — Principal Authors: Luke Zoltan Kelley (Northwestern University) and Maria Charisi (California Institute of Technology)
• The Virtues of Time and Cadence for Pulsars and Fast Transients — Principal Author: Ryan S. Lynch (Green Bank Observatory)
• A Plasma-Physical Understanding of Pulsar Radio Emission Physics — Principal Author: Joanna M. Rankin (University of Vermont)
• Radio Pulsar Populations — Principal Author: Duncan Lorimer (West Virginia Univeristy)
• Twelve Decades: Probing the Interstellar Medium from kiloparsec to sub-AU scales — Principal Author: Dan R. Stinebring (Oberlin College)
• Science from an Ultra-Deep, High-Resolution Millimeter-Wave Survey — Principal Author: Neelima Sehgal (Stony Brook University & Flatiron Institute)

Participants

• Andrew Seymour
• Bert Hawkins
• Dan Werthimer
• Dave MacMahon
• Fronefield Crawford
• Jean-Luc Margot
• Jim Cordes
• Joe Lazio
• Karl Warnick
• Kevin Stovall
• Maura McLaughlin
• Michael Lam
• Natalia Lewandowska
• Neelima Sehgal
• Nissim Kanekar
• Paul Demorest
• Paul Allen
• Shami Chatterjee
• Steve White
• Tim Bastian
• Timothy Dolch
• Ryan Lynch

• Anish Roshi
• David Frayer
• Dom Pesce
• Duncan Lorimer
• Jim Braatz
• Karen O'Neil
• Karl Warnick
• Ken Kellermann
• Mark Devlin
• Nectaria Gkizani
• Neelima Sehgal
• Rich Bradley
• Timothy Dolch
• Tony Mroczowski