Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx)

Gaudi, B. Scott and Mennesson, Bertrand and Seager, Sara and Cahoy, Kerri and Clarke, John and Domagal-Goldman, Shawn and Feinberg, Lee and Guyon, Olivier and Kasdin, Jeremy and Marois, Christian and Mawet, Dimitri and Tamura, Motohide and Mouillet, David and Prusti, Timo and Quirrenbach, Andreas and Robinson, Tyler and Rogers, Leslie and Scowen, Paul and Somerville, Rachel and Stapelfeldt, Karl and Stark, Christopher and Stern, Daniel and Still, Martin and Turnbull, Margaret and Booth, Jeffrey and Kiessling, Alina and Kuan, Gary and Warfield, Keith (2018) Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx). In: Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave. Proceedings of SPIE. No.10698. Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) , Bellingham, WA, Art. No. 106980P. ISBN 9781510619494. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20181207-083716481

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Abstract

The Habitable-Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) is a candidate flagship mission being studied by NASA and the astrophysics community in preparation of the 2020 Decadal Survey. The first HabEx mission concept that has been studied is a large (~4m) diffraction-limited optical space telescope, providing unprecedented resolution and contrast in the optical, with extensions into the near ulttraviolet and near infrared domains. We report here on our team’s efforts in defining a scientifically compelling HabEx mission that is technologically executable, affordable within NASA’s expected budgetary envelope, and timely for the next decade. We also briefly discuss our plans to explore less ambitious, descoped missions relative to the primary mission architecture discussed here.

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https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312278	DOI	Article

ORCID:

Author	ORCID
Gaudi, B. Scott	0000-0003-0395-9869
Mennesson, Bertrand	0000-0003-4205-4800
Seager, Sara	0000-0002-6892-6948
Guyon, Olivier	0000-0002-1097-9908
Marois, Christian	0000-0002-4164-4182
Mawet, Dimitri	0000-0002-8895-4735
Tamura, Motohide	0000-0002-6510-0681
Rogers, Leslie	0000-0003-0638-3455
Stapelfeldt, Karl	0000-0002-2805-7338
Stern, Daniel	0000-0003-2686-9241

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© 2018 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Part of this research was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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Astronomy Department

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Funding Agency	Grant Number
NASA/JPL/Caltech	UNSPECIFIED

Subject Keywords:

decadal, exoplanets, biosignatures, high contrast imaging, galaxy formation and evolution, coronagraph, starshade

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Proceedings of SPIE

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10698

DOI:

10.1117/12.2312278

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CaltechAUTHORS:20181207-083716481

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https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20181207-083716481

Official Citation:

B. Scott Gaudi, Bertrand Mennesson, Sara Seager, Kerri Cahoy, John Clarke, Shawn Domagal-Goldman, Lee Feinberg, Olivier Guyon, Jeremy Kasdin, Christian Marois, Dimitri Mawet, Motohide Tamura, David Mouillet, Timo Prusti, Andreas Quirrenbach, Tyler Robinson, Leslie Rogers, Paul Scowen, Rachel Somerville, Karl Stapelfeldt, Christopher Stark, Daniel Stern, Martin Still, Margaret Turnbull, Jeffrey Booth, Alina Kiessling, Gary Kuan, Keith Warfield, "The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx)," Proc. SPIE 10698, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 106980P (1 August 2018); doi: 10.1117/12.2312278

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George Porter

Deposited On:

07 Dec 2018 22:56

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