TY - GEN
T1 - The habitable exoplanet (HabEx) imaging mission
T2 - Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave
AU - Mennesson, Bertrand
AU - Gaudi, Scott
AU - Seager, Sara
AU - Cahoy, Kerri
AU - Domagal-Goldman, Shawn
AU - Feinberg, Lee
AU - Guyon, Olivier
AU - Kasdin, Jeremy
AU - Marois, Christian
AU - Mawet, Dimitri
AU - Tamura, Motohide
AU - Mouillet, David
AU - Prusti, Timo
AU - Quirrenbach, Andreas
AU - Robinson, Tyler
AU - Rogers, Leslie
AU - Scowen, Paul
AU - Somerville, Rachel
AU - Stapelfeldt, Karl
AU - Stern, Daniel
AU - Still, Martin
AU - Turnbull, Margaret
AU - Booth, Jeffrey
AU - Kiessling, Alina
AU - Kuan, Gary
AU - Warfield, Keith
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 SPIE.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - HabEx is one of four candidate flagship missions being studied in detail by NASA, to be submitted for consideration to the 2020 Decadal Survey in Astronomy and Astrophysics for possible launch in the 2030s. It will be optimized for direct imaging and spectroscopy of potentially habitable exoplanets, and will also enable a wide range of general astrophysics science. HabEx aims to fully characterize planetary systems around nearby solar-type stars for the first time, including rocky planets, possible water worlds, gas giants, ice giants, and faint circumstellar debris disks. In particular, it will explore our nearest neighbors and search for signs of habitability and biosignatures in the atmospheres of rocky planets in the habitable zones of their parent stars. Such high spatial resolution, high contrast observations require a large (roughly greater than 3.5m), stable, and diffraction-limited optical space telescope. Such a telescope also opens up unique capabilities for studying the formation and evolution of stars and galaxies. We present some preliminary science objectives identified for HabEx by our Science and Technology Definition Team (STDT), together with a first look at the key challenges and design trades ahead.
AB - HabEx is one of four candidate flagship missions being studied in detail by NASA, to be submitted for consideration to the 2020 Decadal Survey in Astronomy and Astrophysics for possible launch in the 2030s. It will be optimized for direct imaging and spectroscopy of potentially habitable exoplanets, and will also enable a wide range of general astrophysics science. HabEx aims to fully characterize planetary systems around nearby solar-type stars for the first time, including rocky planets, possible water worlds, gas giants, ice giants, and faint circumstellar debris disks. In particular, it will explore our nearest neighbors and search for signs of habitability and biosignatures in the atmospheres of rocky planets in the habitable zones of their parent stars. Such high spatial resolution, high contrast observations require a large (roughly greater than 3.5m), stable, and diffraction-limited optical space telescope. Such a telescope also opens up unique capabilities for studying the formation and evolution of stars and galaxies. We present some preliminary science objectives identified for HabEx by our Science and Technology Definition Team (STDT), together with a first look at the key challenges and design trades ahead.
KW - Biosignatures
KW - Coronagraph
KW - Exoplanets
KW - Galaxy formation and evolution
KW - High contrast imaging
KW - Starshade
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U2 - 10.1117/12.2240457
DO - 10.1117/12.2240457
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84991407992
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016
A2 - MacEwen, Howard A.
A2 - Lystrup, Makenzie
A2 - Fazio, Giovanni G.
PB - SPIE
Y2 - 26 June 2016 through 1 July 2016
ER -