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

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astro-ph.EP2015★ 70 cited

The LEECH Exoplanet Imaging Survey: Characterization of the Coldest Directly Imaged Exoplanet, GJ 504 b, and Evidence for Super-Stellar Metallicity

Andrew J. Skemer, Caroline V. Morley, Neil T. Zimmerman +39

As gas giant planets and brown dwarfs radiate away the residual heat from their formation, they cool through a spectral type transition from L to T, which encompasses the dissipati…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 40 cited

Demonstration of high contrast with an obscured aperture with the WFIRST-AFTA shaped pupil coronagraph

Eric Cady, Camilo Mejia Prada, Xin An +10

The coronagraph instrument on the WFIRST-AFTA mission study has two coronagraphic architectures, shaped pupil and hybrid Lyot, which may be interchanged for use in different observ…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 3 cited

Know the Star, Know the Planet. V. Characterization of the Stellar Companion to the Exoplanet Host HD 177830

Lewis C. Roberts, Rebecca Oppenheimer, Justin R. Crepp +21

HD 177830 is an evolved K0IV star with two known exoplanets. In addition to the planetary companions it has a late-type stellar companion discovered with adaptive optics imagery. W…

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…