AO-01-03-OSS-018
The Next Generation Sky Survey
PI: Edward L. Wright, University of California, Los Angeles
The Next Generation Sky Survey (NGSS) will map the entire sky with unprecedented sensitivity from 3.5 to 23 microns. With over 500,000 times the sensitivity of COBE at 3.5 and 4.7 microns, and a thousand times that of IRAS at 12 and 25 microns, NGSS will establish an essential database for testing theories of the origins of planets, stars and galaxies, and is the necessary precursor for NGST. The science objectives of NGSS include finding the most luminous galaxies in the universe, and the closest stars to the sun. NGSS will achieve these dramatic advances while minimizing mission cost and risk by using flight-proven technology for its spacecraft bus components and cryogenic instrument, as well as 2MASS data processing software.
| Ames, Harry O. | TR | Utah State University |
| Blain, Andrew | CoI | California Institute of Technology |
| Cohen, Martin | CoI | Vanguard Research, Inc. |
| Cutri, Roc M. | CoI | California Institute of Technology |
| Eisenhardt, Peter R. | CoI | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Fischer, David | TR | Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. |
| Gautier, Thomas N. | CoI | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Hawkins, Isabel | CoI | University of California, Berkeley |
| Jarrett, Thomas H. | CoI | California Institute of Technology |
| Kirkpatrick, J. Davy | CoI | IPAC/Caltech |
| Lonsdale, Carol J. | CoI | California Institute of Technology |
| Mather, John C. | CoI | NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center |
| McLean, Ian S. | CoI | University of California, Los Angeles |
| McMillan, Robert | CoI | University of Arizona |
| Muzilla, Mark | TR | DRS |
| Padgett, Deborah L. | CoI | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Ressler, Michael E. | CoI | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Skrutskie, Michael | CoI | University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| Stanford, S. Adam | CoI | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| Steidel, Charles C. | CoI | California Institute of Technology |
| Walker, Russell G. | CoI | Vanguard Research, Inc. |
| Wright, Edward L. | PI | University of California, Los Angeles |
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