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astro-ph.EP2019★ 1 cited

The Potential of Exozodiacal Disks Observations with the WFIRST Coronagraph Instrument

B. Mennesson, V. Bailey, J. Kasdin +60

The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Coronagraph Instrument (CGI) will be the first high-performance stellar coronagraph using active wavefront control for deep starli…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 25 cited

High-Contrast Testbeds for Future Space-Based Direct Imaging Exoplanet Missions

Johan Mazoyer, Pierre Baudoz, Ruslan Belikov +25

Instrumentation techniques in the field of direct imaging of exoplanets have greatly advanced over the last two decades. Two of the four NASA-commissioned large concept studies inv…

astro-ph.EP2019

The ExoEarth Yield Landscape for Future Direct Imaging Space Telescopes

Christopher C. Stark, Rus Belikov, Matthew R. Bolcar +19

The expected yield of potentially Earth-like planets is a useful metric for designing future exoplanet-imaging missions. Recent yield studies of direct-imaging missions have focuse…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 13 cited

Apodized pupil Lyot coronagraphs designs for future segmented space telescopes

Kathryn St. Laurent, Kevin Fogarty, Neil T. Zimmerman +8

A coronagraphic starlight suppression system situated on a future flagship space observatory offers a promising avenue to image Earth-like exoplanets and search for biomarkers in t…

astro-ph.EP2019

Wide-Orbit Exoplanet Demographics

David P. Bennett, Rachel Akeson, Yann Alibert +41

The Kepler, K2 and TESS transit surveys are revolutionizing our understanding of planets orbiting close to their host stars and our understanding of exoplanet systems in general, b…

astro-ph.EP2019

Masses and Distances of Planetary Microlens Systems with High Angular Resolution Imaging

Aparna Bhattacharya, Rachel Akeson, Jay Anderson +33

Microlensing is the only method that can detect and measure mass of wide orbit, low mass, solar system analog exoplanets. Mass measurements of such planets would yield massive scie…