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astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

Magnifying NASA Roman GBTDS exoplanet science with coordinated observations by ESA Euclid

Eamonn Kerins, Etienne Bachelet, Jean-Philippe Beaulieu +6

The ESA Euclid mission is scheduled to launch on July 1st 2023. This White Paper discusses how Euclid observations of the Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey (GBTDS) area could drama…

astro-ph.IM2019

Community Involvement in the WFIRST Exoplanet Microlensing Survey

David P. Bennett, Rachel Akeson, Thomas Barclay +22

WFIRST is NASA's first flagship mission with pre-defined core science programs to study dark energy and perform a statistical census of wide orbit exoplanets with a gravitational m…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 178 cited

The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope: 100 Hubbles for the 2020s

Rachel Akeson, Lee Armus, Etienne Bachelet +103

The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is a 2.4m space telescope with a 0.281 deg^2 field of view for near-IR imaging and slitless spectroscopy and a coronagraph designe…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 5 cited

Unique Science from a Coordinated LSST-WFIRST Survey of the Galactic Bulge

R. A. Street, M. B. Lund, M. Donachie +19

NASA's WFIRST mission will perform a wide-field, NIR survey of the Galactic Bulge to search for exoplanets via the microlensing techniques. As the mission is due to launch in the m…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 1 cited

The Diverse Science Return from a Wide-Area Survey of the Galactic Plane

R. A. Street, M. B. Lund, S. Khakpash +19

The overwhelming majority of objects visible to LSST lie within the Galactic Plane. Though many previous surveys have avoided this region for fear of stellar crowding, LSST's spati…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 10 cited

Photometry of K2 Campaign 9 bulge data

R. Poleski, M. Penny, B. S. Gaudi +4

In its Campaign 9, K2 observed dense regions toward the Galactic bulge in order to constrain the microlensing parallaxes and probe for free-floating planets. Photometric reduction…