Collaboration and Competition in Exoplanet Research

Creators: Beichman, Charles

Others:: Usuda, Tomonori; Tamura, Motohide; Ishii, Miki

Abstract

Collaboration and competition are strong driving forces in the modern search for exoplanets. It appears among individuals, agencies and nations, as well as between observing techniques and theoretical interpretation. I will argue that these forces, taken in balance, are beneficial to the field and are partly responsible for the rapid progress in the search for planets and ultimately the search for life beyond the solar system. Specific examples will include indirect detection of Earth analogs from ground and space and the direct detection of gas giant and terrestrial planets.

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© 2009 American Institute of Physics. Published online 05 August 2009. We have benefited from discussion about SIM with Joe Catanzerite. Isabelle Baraffe and Travis Barman generously adapted their models to the JWST filter passbands. Ben Oppenheimer, Anand Sivaramakrishnan and Sasha Hinkley provided useful discussions about the performance of PI 640 and the non-redudant mask on JWST. We gratefully acknowledge travel support from the organizers and thank our Japanese hosts for their commitment to international collaboration in ground and space astronomy over the years. Some of the research described in this publication was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Finally, I would like to thank Ben Oppenheimer, Dave Latham and Dimitar Sasselov for their hospitality during my sabbatical leave.

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