What is the boundary between the “Galactic Neighborhood” panel and the “Galaxies Across Cosmic Time” panel?
It has been decided that the GAN panel will focus on studies of the properties and state of the Milky Way and other galaxies and their stellar populations and interstellar media in general at the present cosmological epoch, whereas the GCT panel will consider how galaxies have evolved over time. The GAN panel will consider science questions associated with galaxies at redshifts less than about 0.1 (a fuzzy limit). If you have questions about which panel to submit your white paper to, please write to astro2010@nas.edu and someone will try to assist you. Note that the SFP panel chairs and members of the Astro2010 Science Subcommittee will work in close coordination to make sure that one or the other panel will consider all science areas, as appropriate. These boundaries are meant for practical convenience; we won’t let them interfere with our task.
