Committee on 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。天文学和天体物理学委员会(天文学和天体物理学委员会)以天文学和天体物理学十年概览《天文学和天体物理学的新世界，新地平线》为基础进行审议，确定天文学和天体物理学界关心的问题，并就其天文学和天体物理学研究方案向联邦机构提供指导，以鼓励该领域的科学进步。这个奖项的一个主要功能是使下一次十年调查成为可能。CAA由物理和天文学委员会和国家科学院工程和物理科学部空间研究委员会赞助。委员会成员来自不同领域的专家，因此CAA能够识别和评估可能导致对科学研究前沿关键问题的新见解和新视角的问题和趋势。CAA的活动旨在将支助机构的信息传播到更广泛的社区，并向机构官员提供以社区为基础的意见。CAA定期收集天文学、天体物理学和物理界的意见，委员会成员与机构官员、政府、国会工作人员和社区成员交谈。大多数报告和分析都向更广泛的公众开放。工作人员和委员会成员还参加美国天文学会的年度会议，偶尔也参加美国科学促进会和美国物理学会的年度会议。CAA得到了NASA和NSF的支持。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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. Basing its deliberations on the decadal survey of astronomy and astrophysics, "New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics", the Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics (CAA) identifies issues of concern to the astronomy and astrophysics community and provides guidance to federal agencies regarding their astronomy and astrophysics research programs in order to encourage the field's scientific progress. A primary function during this award is to enable the next decadal survey. The CAA is under the auspices of the Board on Physics and Astronomy and the Space Studies Board of the Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences at the National Academy of Sciences.Committee membership is drawn from experts from across a diverse field, and the CAA is thus able to identify and assess issues and trends that can lead to fresh insights and new perspectives on key questions at the forefront of scientific research. The activities of the CAA serve to disseminate information from the supporting agencies into the broader community, as well as to provide the agency officials with community-based input. The CAA routinely gathers input from the astronomy, astrophysics, and physics communities, and members of the committee converse with agency officials, the administration, congressional staff, and community members. Most reports and analyses are available to the broader public. Staff and committee members also participate in annual meetings of the American Astronomical Society and, occasionally, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society. The CAA is supported by NASA and NSF.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.