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The Search for Terrestrial Planets: What Do we Need to Know?
Charles Beichman
The goal of finding and characterizing habitable planets in other solar systems represents one of humanity's greatest scientific challenges. NASA and ESA have initiated studies of…
astro-ph2002
Captain Cook, the Terrestrial Planet Finder and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Charles Beichman
Over two hundred years ago Capt. James Cook sailed up Whitsunday Passage, just a few miles where we now sit, on a voyage of astronomical observation and discovery that remains an i…
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Extinction with 2MASS: star counts and reddening toward the North America and the Pelican Nebulae
L. Cambresy, C. A. Beichman, T. H. Jarrett +1
We propose a general method for mapping the extinction in dense molecular clouds using 2MASS near-infrared data. The technique is based on the simultaneous utilization of star coun…