Review of Progress Toward the Decadal Survey Vision in New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics

在发现的推动下，在技术和想象力的飞跃的推动下，我们对宇宙的理解在过去几十年里发生了戏剧性的变化。天文学和天体物理学领域继续创造与物理、化学、生物学和计算机科学的新联系。实现这些科学机会取决于维持和加强研究企业的基础。以十年调查《新世界》、《天文学新视野》和《天体物理学》为基础，由物理和天文学委员会和美国国家科学院空间研究委员会赞助成立的十年中期委员会将确定天文学和天体物理界关心的问题，并为联邦机构的天文和天体物理研究计划提供指导，以鼓励该领域的科学进步？S。中期委员会的活动旨在将支持机构的信息传播到更广泛的科学界和公众，并向该机构官员提供基于社区的意见。该委员会将收集天文学、天体物理学和物理学界的意见。此外，委员会成员将与机构官员、国会工作人员以及天文学和天体物理学社区的其他成员就与这项研究相关的主题进行接触。

Driven by discoveries, and enabled by leaps in technology and imagination, our understanding of the Universe has changed dramatically over the course of the last few decades. The fields of astronomy and astrophysics continue to create new connections to physics, chemistry, biology, and computer science. Realizing these scientific opportunities is contingent upon maintaining and strengthening the foundations of the research enterprise. With the decadal survey New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics as a basis, the Mid-Decadal Committee, formed with this award under the auspices of the Board on Physics and Astronomy and the Space Studies Board at the National Academy of Sciences, will identify issues of concern to the astronomy and astrophysics community and provide guidance to federal agencies regarding their astronomy and astrophysics research programs in order to encourage the field?s scientific progress.The activities of the Mid-Decadal Committee serve to disseminate information from the supporting agencies into the broader scientific community and the public, as well as provide the agency officials with community-based input. The committee will gather input from the astronomy, astrophysics, and physics communities. Additionally, members of the committee will engage with agency officials, congressional staff, and other members of the astronomy and astrophysics community on topics relevant to the study.