Astrophysics in the Next Decade

1. The James Webb Space Telescope
Jonathan P Gardner, John C. Mather, Mark Clampin, Rene Doyon, Kathryn A. Flanagan, Marijn Franx, Matthew A. Greenhouse, Heidi B. Hammel, John B. Hutchings, Peter Jakobsen, Simon J. Lilly, Jonathan I. Lunine, Mark J. McCaughrean, Matt Mountain, George H. Rieke, Marcia J. Rieke, George Sonneborn, Massimo Stiavelli, Rogier Windhorst, Gillian S. Wright.

2. Beyond the Hubble Space Telescope: Early Development of the Next Generation Space Telescope
Robert W. Smith, W. Patrick McCray

3. The Kuiper Belt and Other Debris Disks
David Jewitt, Amaya Moro-Martìn, Pedro Lacerda

4. The Future of Ultracool Dwarf Science with JWST
Mark S. Marley, S.K. Leggett

5. Transiting Exoplanets with JWST
S. Seager, D. Deming, J.A. Valenti

6. The Unsolved Problem of Star Formation: Dusty Dense Cores and the Origin of Stellar Masses
Charles J. Lada

7. Accretion Disks Before (?) the Main Planet Formation Phase
C. Dominik

8. Astrochemistry of Dense Protostellar and Protoplanetary Environments
Ewine F. Dishoeck

9. Extreme Star Formation
Jean L. Turner

10. Prospects for Studies of Stellar Evolution and Stellar Death in the JWST Era
Michael J. Barlow

11. Origin and Evolution of the Interstellar Medium
A.G.G.M. Tielens

12. Astrophysics in the Next Decade: The Evolution of Galaxies
Alice Shapley

13. The Co-Evolution of Galaxies and Black Holes: Current Status and Future Prospects
Timothy M. Heckman

14. The Intergalactic Medium at High Redshifts
Steven R. Furlanetto

15. Observing the First Stars and Black Holes
Zoltán Haiman

16. Baryons: What,When and Where?
Jason X. Prochaska, Jason Tumlinson

17. Observational Constraints of Reionization History in the JWST Era
Xiaohui Fan

18. The Frontier of Reionization: Theory and Forthcoming Observations
Abraham Loeb

Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Astrophysics, Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences