Planetary Imaging Concept Testbed Using a Recoverable Experiment-Coronagraph (PICTURE C)
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Author(s)
Cook, T.
Cahoy, K.
Chakrabarti, S.
Douglas, E.
Finn, S. C.
Kuchner, M.
Lewis, N.
Marinan, A.
Martel, J.
Mawet, D.
Date Issued
2015
Publisher
SPIE
Citation
Cook, T., Cahoy, K., Chakrabarti, S., Douglas, E., Finn, S., Kuchner, M., & ... Swain, M. (2015). Planetary Imaging Concept Testbed Using a Recoverable Experiment-Coronagraph (PICTURE C). Journal Of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, And Systems, 1(4), 044001. doi:10.1117/1.JATIS.1.4.044001
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.
Subjects
circumstellar matter
coronagraphs
extrasolar planetary motion
infrared sources (astronomical)
light scattering
MIT Department
Space Telecommunications Astronomy and Radiation (STAR) Lab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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