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

1k citations · 1.2k across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.IM2019★ 2 cited

Key Technologies for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope Coronagraph Instrument

Vanessa P. Bailey, Lee Armus, Bala Balasubramanian +84

The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Coronagraph Instrument (CGI) is a high-contrast imager and integral field spectrograph that will enable the study of exoplanets an…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 3 cited

Smartphone scene generator for efficient characterization of visible imaging detectors

Michael Bottom, Leo S. Neat, Leon K. Harding +3

Full characterization of imaging detectors involves subjecting them to spatially and temporally varying illumination patterns over a large dynamic range. Here we present a scene ge…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 60 cited

Technology advancement of the CCD201-20 EMCCD for the WFIRST coronagraph instrument: sensor characterization and radiation damage

Leon K. Harding, Richard T. Demers, Michael Hoenk +15

The Wide Field InfraRed Survey Telescope-Astrophysics Focused Telescope Asset (WFIRST-AFTA) mission is a 2.4-m class space telescope that will be used across a swath of astrophysic…

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.IM2013★ 47 cited

Development of sensitive long-wave infrared detector arrays for passively cooled space missions

Craig McMurtry, Donald Lee, James Beletic +10

The near-earth object camera (NEOCam) is a proposed infrared space mission designed to discover and characterize most of the potentially hazardous asteroids larger than 140 m in di…