Exo-C: a probe-scale space mission to directly image and spectroscopically characterize exoplanetary systems using an internal coronagraph
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Author(s)
Stapelfeldt, Karl R.
Brenner, Michael P.
Warfield, Keith R.
Dekens, Frank G.
Belikov, Ruslan
Brugarolas, Paul B.
Bryden, Geoffrey
Chakrabarti, Supriya
Dubovitsky, Serge
Effinger, Robert T.
Date Issued
June 2014
Journal
Proceedings Volume 9143, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave
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SPIE
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Stapelfeldt, Karl R., et al. "Exo-C: A Probe-Scale Space Mission to Directly Image and Spectroscopically Characterize Exoplanetary Systems Using an Internal Coronagraph." 22-27 June, 2014, Montreal, Canada, edited by Jacobus M. Oschmann et al., 2014, p. 91432K. © 2014 SPIE.
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Abstract
"Exo-C" is NASA's first community study of a modest aperture space telescope designed for high contrast observations of exoplanetary systems. The mission will be capable of taking optical spectra of nearby exoplanets in reflected light, discover previously undetected planets, and imaging structure in a large sample of circumstellar disks. It will obtain unique science results on planets down to super-Earth sizes and serve as a technology pathfinder toward an eventual flagship-class mission to find and characterize habitable exoplanets. We present the mission/payload design and highlight steps to reduce mission cost/risk relative to previous mission concepts. At the study conclusion in 2015, NASA will evaluate it for potential development at the end of this decade.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2057115
