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most citedLIGO: The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory

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astro-ph.IM2021★ 2 cited

The Photo-z Infrared Telescope (PIRT) -- a space instrument for rapid follow up of high-redshift gamma-ray bursts and electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave events

M. Seiffert, A. Balady, T. -C. Chang +17

The Photo-z InfraRed Telescope (PIRT) is an instrument on the Gamow Explorer, currently proposed for a NASA Astrophysics Medium Explorer. PIRT works in tandem with a companion wide…

astro-ph.IM2021

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…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 4 cited

Overview and Reassessment of Noise Budget of Starshade Exoplanet Imaging

Renyu Hu, Doug Lisman, Stuart Shaklan +3

High-contrast imaging enabled by a starshade in formation flight with a space telescope can provide a near-term pathway to search for and characterize temperate and small planets o…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 15 cited

Optical Verification Experiments of Sub-scale Starshades

Anthony Harness, Stuart Shaklan, Phillip Willems +7

Starshades are a leading technology to enable the detection and spectroscopic characterization of Earth-like exoplanets. In this paper we report on optical experiments of sub-scale…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 5 cited

Photometric Limits on the High Resolution Imaging of Exoplanets Using the Solar Gravity Lens

Phil A. Willems

We present an analysis of high-resolution imaging of an exoplanet by a meter-class telescope positioned at a real image of the exoplanet created by the solar gravity lens. We assum…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 124 cited

The HOSTS survey for exozodiacal dust: Observational results from the complete survey

Steve Ertel, Denis Defrère, Philip M. Hinz +43

The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer (LBTI) enables nulling interferometric observations across the N band (8 to 13 um) to suppress a star's bright light and probe for fain…