In December 2010, NASA created a Science Definition Team (SDT) for WFIRST, the Wide Field Infra-Red Survey Telescope, recommended by the Astro 2010 Decadal Survey as the highest priority for a large space mission. The SDT was chartered to work with the WFIRST Project Office at GSFC and the Program Office at JPL to produce a Design Reference Mission (DRM) for WFIRST. Part of the original charge was to produce an interim design reference mission by mid-2011. That document was delivered to NASA and widely circulated within the astronomical community. In late 2011 the Astrophysics Division augmented its original charge, asking for two design reference missions. The first of these, DRM1, was to be a finalized version of the interim DRM, reducing overall mission costs where possible. The second of these, DRM2, was to identify and eliminate capabilities that overlapped with those of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (henceforth JWST), ESA's Euclid mission, and the NSF's ground-based Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (henceforth LSST), and again to reduce overall mission cost, while staying faithful to NWNH. This report presents both DRM1 and DRM2.
@article{arxiv.1208.4012,
title = {Wide-Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Final Report},
author = {J. Green and P. Schechter and C. Baltay and R. Bean and D. Bennett and R. Brown and C. Conselice and M. Donahue and X. Fan and B. S. Gaudi and C. Hirata and J. Kalirai and T. Lauer and B. Nichol and N. Padmanabhan and S. Perlmutter and B. Rauscher and J. Rhodes and T. Roellig and D. Stern and T. Sumi and A. Tanner and Y. Wang and D. Weinberg and E. Wright and N. Gehrels and R. Sambruna and W. Traub and J. Anderson and K. Cook and P. Garnavich and L. Hillenbrand and Z. Ivezic and E. Kerins and J. Lunine and P. McDonald and M. Penny and M. Phillips and G. Rieke and A. Riess and R. van der Marel and R. K. Barry and E. Cheng and D. Content and R. Cutri and R. Goullioud and K. Grady and G. Helou and C. Jackson and J. Kruk and M. Melton and C. Peddie and N. Rioux and M. Seiffert},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.4012},
year = {2012}
}