Planetary Imaging Concept Testbed Using a Recoverable Experiment–Coronagraph (PICTURE C)
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Author(s)
Cook, Timothy
Cahoy, Kerri
Chakrabarti, Supriya
Douglas, Ewan
Finn, Susanna C.
Kuchner, Marc
Lewis, Nikole
Marinan, Anne
Martel, Jason
Mawet, Dimitri
Date Issued
September 2015
Journal
Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
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SPIE
Citation
Cook, Timothy et al. “Planetary Imaging Concept Testbed Using a Recoverable Experiment–Coronagraph (PICTURE C).” Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 1.4 (2015): 44001.
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Final published version
Abstract
An exoplanet mission based on a high-altitude balloon is a next logical step in humanity’s quest to explore Earthlike planets in Earthlike orbits orbiting Sunlike stars. The mission described here is capable of spectrally imaging debris disks and exozodiacal light around a number of stars spanning a range of infrared excesses, stellar types, and ages. The mission is designed to characterize the background near those stars, to study the disks themselves, and to look for planets in those systems. The background light scattered and emitted from the disk is a key uncertainty in the mission design of any exoplanet direct imaging mission, thus, its characterization is critically important for future imaging of exoplanets.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.1.4.044001
