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most citedWide-Field InfrarRed Survey Telescope-Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets WFIRST-AFTA 2015 Report

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astro-ph.IM2015★ 1k cited

Wide-Field InfrarRed Survey Telescope-Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets WFIRST-AFTA 2015 Report

D. Spergel, N. Gehrels, C. Baltay +52

This report describes the 2014 study by the Science Definition Team (SDT) of the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission. It is a space observatory that will address…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 138 cited

Bending and Breathing Modes of the Galactic Disk

Lawrence M. Widrow, Jarrett Barber, Matthew H. Chequers +1

We explore the hypothesis that a passing satellite or dark matter subhalo has excited coherent oscillations of the Milky Way's stellar disk in the direction perpendicular to the Ga…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 51 cited

WFIRST-2.4: What Every Astronomer Should Know

D. Spergel, N. Gehrels, J. Breckinridge +43

The Astro2010 Decadal Survey recommended a Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) as its top priority for a new large space mission. The report of the WFIRST-AFTA Science De…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 90 cited

Wide-Field InfraRed Survey Telescope-Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets WFIRST-AFTA Final Report

D. Spergel, N. Gehrels, J. Breckinridge +43

The Astro2010 Decadal Survey recommended a Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) as its top priority for a new large space mission. As conceived by the decadal survey, WFIR…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 131 cited

Wide-Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Final Report

J. Green, P. Schechter, C. Baltay +51

In December 2010, NASA created a Science Definition Team (SDT) for WFIRST, the Wide Field Infra-Red Survey Telescope, recommended by the Astro 2010 Decadal Survey as the highest pr…

astro-ph.EP2010★ 15 cited

Completing the Census of Exoplanets with the Microlensing Planet Finder (MPF)

David P. Bennett, J. Anderson, J. -P. Beaulieu +17

The MPF mission will provide a statistical census of exoplanets with masses greater than 0.1 Earth-masses and orbital separations ranging from 0.5AU to infinity. This includes anal…