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
• MTR2019:SKA and pathfinders
  This folder provides information about the community consultation workshops that were held in September 2019, to support the development of a "SKA and Pathfinders" white paper for the Mid-Term Review Committee.
  Outcomes:
  • The white paper that was produced out of this process is available on the MTR website: click here
  • Summary slides, used to communicate outcomes in regional town halls after the completion of the white paper, are available here: SKA_and_Pathfinders_summary_MTR.pdf
• 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