Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx)
- Creators
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Gaudi, B. Scott
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Mennesson, Bertrand
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Seager, Sara
- Cahoy, Kerri
- Clarke, John
- Domagal-Goldman, Shawn
- Feinberg, Lee
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Guyon, Olivier
- Kasdin, Jeremy
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Marois, Christian
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Mawet, Dimitri
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Tamura, Motohide
- Mouillet, David
- Prusti, Timo
- Quirrenbach, Andreas
- Robinson, Tyler
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Rogers, Leslie
- Scowen, Paul
- Somerville, Rachel
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Stapelfeldt, Karl
- Stark, Christopher
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Stern, Daniel
- Still, Martin
- Turnbull, Margaret
- Booth, Jeffrey
- Kiessling, Alina
- Kuan, Gary
- Warfield, Keith
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.
Additional Information
© 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.Attached Files
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Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 91555
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20181207-083716481
- NASA/JPL/Caltech
- Created
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2018-12-07Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-16Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Caltech groups
- Astronomy Department
- Series Name
- Proceedings of SPIE
- Series Volume or Issue Number
- 10698