High-Contrast Testbeds for Future Space-Based Direct Imaging Exoplanet Missions
Abstract
High-contrast imaging instrumentation has greatly advanced over the last two decades and two of the NASA-commissioned large studies (LUVOIR & HabEX) include an instrument to image and characterize exo-Earths. This paper describes the status and goal of 8 optical testbeds currently in operation to experimentally validate the necessary technologies.
- Publication:
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Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- September 2019
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1907.09508
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1907.09508
- Bibcode:
- 2019BAAS...51g.101M
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- Astro2020 Decadal Survey call for Activities, Projects, or State of the Profession Consideration - APC White Paper. To be published in the Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society (BAAS). 16 pages, 5 figures