Publications (4)
The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) Mission Concept Study Final Report
B. Scott Gaudi, Sara Seager, Bertrand Mennesson +183
The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory, or HabEx, has been designed to be the Great Observatory of the 2030s. For the first time in human history, technologies have matured sufficient…
Starshade Rendezvous: Exoplanet Sensitivity and Observing Strategy
Andrew Romero-Wolf, Geoffrey Bryden, Sara Seager +33
Launching a starshade to rendezvous with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope would provide the first opportunity to directly image the habitable zones of nearby sunlike stars in…
Airships: A New Horizon for Science
Sarah H. Miller, Robert Fesen, Lynne Hillenbrand +33
The "Airships: A New Horizon for Science" study at the Keck Institute for Space Studies investigated the potential of a variety of airships currently operable or under development…
The focal plane instrumentation for the DUNE mission
Jeff Booth, Mark Cropper, Frank Eisenhauer +2
DUNE (Dark Universe Explorer) is a proposed mission to measure parameters of dark energy using weak gravitational lensing The particular challenges of both optical and infrared foc…