3 papers
astro-ph.EP2019
New Frontiers for Terrestrial-sized to Neptune-sized Exoplanets In the Era of Extremely Large Telescopes
Ji Wang, Michael R. Meyer, Alan Boss +20
Surveys reveal that terrestrial- to Neptune-sized planets (1 4 R) are the most common type of planets in our galaxy. Detecting and characterizing such small…
astro-ph.EP2019
Protoplanetary Disk Science Enabled by Extremely Large Telescopes
Hannah Jang-Condell, Sean Brittain, Alycia Weinberger +36
The processes that transform gas and dust in circumstellar disks into diverse exoplanets remain poorly understood. One key pathway is to study exoplanets as they form in their youn…
astro-ph.EP2019
Identification and characterization of the host stars in planetary microlensing with ELTs
Chien-Hsiu Lee, Rachel Street, Kailash Sahu +1
Microlensing offers a unique opportunity to probe exoplanets that are temperate and beyond the snow line, as small as Jovian satellites, at extragalactic distance, and even free fl…