The TOLIMAN space telescope
Abstract
The TOLIMAN space telescope is a low-cost, agile mission concept dedicated to astrometric detection of exoplanets in the near-solar environment, and particularly targeting the Alpha Cen system. Although successful discovery technologies are now populating exoplanetary catalogs into the thousands, contemporary astronomy is still poorly equipped to answer the basic question of whether there are any rocky planets orbiting any particular star system. Toliman will make a first study of stars within 10 PC of the sun by deploying an innovative optical and signal encoding architecture that leverages the most promising technology to deliver data on this critical stellar sample: high precision astrometric monitoring. Here we present results from the Foundational Mission Study, jointly funded by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation and the University of Sydney which has translated innovative underlying design principles into error budgets and potential spacecraft systems designs.
Additional Information
© 2018 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). The original scientific impetus as well as critical financial and logistical support for this research program were provided by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. The authors also acknowledge the University of Sydney who are joint partners in the study which produced the results presented.Attached Files
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- Eprint ID
- 92050
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20190103-153503732
- Breakthrough Prize Foundation
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2019-01-07Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-16Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Series Name
- Proceedings of SPIE
- Series Volume or Issue Number
- 10701