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

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astro-ph.EP2019

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

Enabling the next generation of scientific discoveries by embracing photonic technologies

Nemanja Jovanovic, Charles Beichman, Cullen Blake +46

The fields of Astronomy and Astrophysics are technology limited, where the advent and application of new technologies to astronomy usher in a flood of discoveries altering our unde…

astro-ph.EP2019

ESA Voyage 2050 White Paper: Detecting life outside our solar system with a large high-contrast-imaging mission

Ignas Snellen, Simon Albrecht, Guillem Anglada-Escude +64

In this white paper, we recommend the European Space Agency plays a proactive role in developing a global collaborative effort to construct a large high-contrast imaging space tele…

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.SR2019

Constraining Stellar Photospheres as an Essential Step for Transmission Spectroscopy of Small Exoplanets

Benjamin V. Rackham, Arazi Pinhas, Dániel Apai +29

Transmission spectra probe the atmospheres of transiting exoplanets, but these observations are also subject to signals introduced by magnetic active regions on host stars. Here we…

astro-ph.EP20197 cited

The remote detectability of Earth's biosphere through time and the importance of UV capability for characterizing habitable exoplanets

Christopher T. Reinhard, Edward W. Schwieterman, Stephanie L. Olson +10

Thousands of planets beyond our solar system have been discovered to date, dozens of which are rocky in composition and are orbiting within the circumstellar habitable zone of thei…