A decline and fall in the future of Italian Astronomy?
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2010-07-12 v1
Abstract
On May 27th 2010, the Italian astronomical community learned with concern that the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) was going to be suppressed, and that its employees were going to be transferred to the National Research Council (CNR). It was not clear if this applied to all employees (i.e. also to researchers hired on short-term contracts), and how this was going to happen in practice. In this letter, we give a brief historical overview of INAF and present a short chronicle of the few eventful days that followed. Starting from this example, we then comment on the current situation and prospects of astronomical research in Italy.
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@article{arxiv.1007.1455,
title = {A decline and fall in the future of Italian Astronomy?},
author = {Angelo Antonelli and Vincenzo Antonuccio-Delogu and Andrea Baruffolo and Stefano Benetti and Simone Bianchi and Andrea Biviano and Annalisa Bonafede and Marco Bondi and Stefano Borgani and Angela Bragaglia and Massimo Brescia and John Robert Brucato and Gianfranco Brunetti and Riccardo Brunino and Michele Cantiello and Viviana Casasola and Rossella Cassano and Alberto Cellino and Gabriele Cescutti and Andrea Cimatti and Andrea Comastri and Edvige Corbelli and Giovanni Cresci and Serena Criscuoli and Stefano Cristiani and Guido Cupani and Sabrina De Grandi and Valerio D'Elia and Melania Del Santo and Gabriella De Lucia and Silvano Desidera and Marcella Di Criscienzo and Valentina D'Odorico and Elisabetta Dotto and Fabio Fontanot and Mario Gai and Simona Gallerani and Stefano Gallozzi and Bianca Garilli and Isabella Gioia and Marisa Girardi and Myriam Gitti and Gianluigi Granato and Raffaele Gratton and Andrea Grazian and Carlotta Gruppioni and Leslie Hunt and Giuseppe Leto and Gianluca Israel and Manuela Magliocchetti and Laura Magrini and Gabriele Mainetti and Filippo Mannucci and Alessandro Marconi and Martino Marelli and Michele Maris and Francesca Matteucci and Massimo Meneghetti and Aniello Mennella and Amata Mercurio and Silvano Molendi and Pierluigi Monaco and Alessia Moretti and Giuseppe Murante and Fabrizio Nicastro and Marina Orio and Adamantia Paizis and Francesca Panessa and Fabio Pasian and Laura Pentericci and Lucia Pozzetti and Mariachiara Rossetti and Joana S. Santos and Alexandro Saro and Raffaella Schneider and Laura Silva and Roberto Silvotti and Richard Smart and Andrea Tiengo and Luca Tornatore and Paolo Tozzi and Edoardo Trussoni and Tiziano Valentinuzzi and Eros Vanzella and Franco Vazza and Alberto Vecchiato and Tiziana Venturi and Giacomo Vianello and Matteo Viel and Alvaro Villalobos and Valentina Viotto and Benedetta Vulcani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.1455},
year = {2010}
}
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