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The James Webb Space Telescope Mission
Jonathan P. Gardner, John C. Mather, Randy Abbott +1004
Twenty-six years ago a small committee report, building on earlier studies, expounded a compelling and poetic vision for the future of astronomy, calling for an infrared-optimized…
A Predictive Model for Micrometeoroid Damage to Gossamer Structures
Michaela N. Villarreal, Jonathan W. Arenberg, Lauren Halvonik Harris
A typical inflatable reflector for space application consists of two thin membranes with a parabolic shape. It is critical to understand the interaction of the inflatable and the m…
Optical Design of the Orbiting Astronomical Satellite for Investigating Stellar Systems (OASIS)
Siddhartha Sirsi, Yuzuru Takashima, Arthur Palisoc +4
The Orbiting Astronomical Satellite for Investigating Stellar Systems (OASIS) is a proposed space telescope with a 14 m inflatable primary reflector that will perform high spectral…
Guest Editorial: Overview of the Special Issue and a Dialog on Starshades
Jonathan Arenberg, Anthony Harness, Rebecca Jensen-Clem
This special issue is dedicated to starshades: science, engineering, technology and programmatics. Our reasons for organizing this special issue are several fold. First as a new te…
Starshade Rendezvous: Exoplanet Orbit Constraints from Multi-Epoch Direct Imaging
Andrew Romero-Wolf, Geoffrey Bryden, Greg Agnes +9
The addition of an external starshade to the {\it Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope} will enable the direct imaging of Earth-radius planets orbiting at 1 AU. Classification o…
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…
The Case for Probe-class NASA Astrophysics Missions
Martin Elvis, Jon Arenberg, David Ballantyne +45
Astrophysics spans an enormous range of questions on scales from individual planets to the entire cosmos. To address the richness of 21st century astrophysics requires a correspond…
The NASA Probe space mission concept, Cosmic Evolution Through UV Surveys (CETUS)
Sara Heap, Jonathan Arenberg, Tony Hull +2
The mission concept, Cosmic Origins Through UV Surveys (CETUS) is an all-UV space mission concept that was selected and funded by NASA for study in 2017. The main capabilities of C…
A Thousand Earths: A Very Large Aperture, Ultralight Space Telescope Array for Atmospheric Biosignature Surveys
Daniel Apai, Tom D. Milster, Dae Wook Kim +4
An outstanding, multi-disciplinary goal of modern science is the study of the diversity of potentially Earth-like planets and the search for life in them. This goal requires a bold…
The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite
Richard F. Mushotzky, James Aird, Amy J. Barger +41
Much of the baryonic matter in the Universe, including the most active and luminous sources, are best studied in the X-ray band. Key advances in X-ray optics and detectors have pav…