<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear IVOA Interop,</div><div dir="ltr"><br><div> A group of USVOA and friends have written 6 white papers and submitted them to all the science areas of the US 2020 Decadal Survey that will recommend the priorities for the next 10 years to the Funding Agencies. </div><div>We have decided to challenge the slant of the survey (based on providing &#39;the most important open questions&#39;, and instead stress the importance of serendipitous and archival science in Astrophysics. These papers have received a surprising amount of support from colleagues.</div><div><br></div><div>I have posted on ArXiv a collation of the six papers.</div><div>For you reading pleasure:</div><div><br></div><div><div>2019arXiv190306634F </div><div>2019/03</div><div>Increasing the Discovery Space in Astrophysics - A Collation of Six Submitted White Papers</div><div>Fabbiano, G.; Elvis, M.; Accomazzi, A. and 46 more</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div> -pepi</div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Giuseppina Fabbiano</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Senior Astrophysicist</b></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(HEA/SAO)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Center for Astrophysics | Harvard &amp; Smithsonian</span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Office: (617) 495 7203  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">60 Garden Street | MS 6 | Cambridge, MA 02138</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/OoZc2yZJzO1hz76z-ABVRM_-I247Ia6AfACrvjvLdMkvs6s78rdRt9CaX3MHHBwJp3WLbPl2tXKnKhMGB3u4Qrn-6u4emHBDPb2RsSZcH1KKyuMq5XIA-uiRJ8wyctlIdzXn0Gdk" width="350" height="2" style="border: none;"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/vS-pMXywjgT1nWHk4dEFaVO-gDa7_ECSLRjbomebSln6eDjpY5X8OT-1P8EALcZKBKHSF_p28q9FUlvYfae-USxl0bqLBCycECroJnR0VmC1jC0YEfEpngVp1EkUlYUKMWLjR28V" width="149" height="65" style="border: none;"></span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://cfa.harvard.edu/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">cfa.harvard.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> | </span><a href="http://cfa.harvard.edu/facebook" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Facebook</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> | </span><a href="http://cfa.harvard.edu/twitter" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:underline;vertic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