WAET: low-cost ground based telescopes for accelerated exoplanet direct imaging
Abstract
The Wide Aperture Exoplanet Telescope (WAET) is a new ground-based optical telescope layout with an extremely asymmetric aperture, which results in new exoplanet imaging reach at very low cost. We suggest that hWAET, a 100x2m telescope, can be built for $150M in the 2020s, and >300m versions merit further R&D.
- Publication:
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Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- September 2019
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1907.04897
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1907.04897
- Bibcode:
- 2019BAAS...51g..76M
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- Project white paper submitted to the Astro2020 Decadal Survey