What is a science white paper?
The Astro2010 Subcommittee on Science, and the Astro2010 Science Frontier Panels (SFPs) invited interested parties from the broad community to submit white papers focusing on how our understanding of the scientific frontiers in astronomy may be advanced in the future. Authors were asked to specifically and succinctly identify new science opportunities and compelling science themes, place those in the broader scientific context, and describe the key advances in observation, experiment and theory necessary to realize those scientific opportunities within the decade 2010-2020. Papers were submitted to one of the Science Frontiers Panels.
