Timothy Cook,1 Kerri Cahoy,2 Supriya Chakrabarti,1 Ewan Douglashttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0813-4308,3 Susanna C. Finn,1 Marc J. Kuchner,4 Nikole K. Lewis,5 Anne Marinan,2 Jason Martel,1 Dimitri Mawet,6 Benjamin Mazin,7 Seth R. Meeker,7 Christopher Mendillo,1 Gene Serabyn,8 David Stuchlik,4 Mark Swain8
1Univ. of Massachusetts Lowell (United States) 2Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States) 3Boston Univ. (United States) 4NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (United States) 5Space Telescope Science Institute (United States) 6California Institute of Technology (United States) 7Univ. of California, Santa Barbara (United States) 8Jet Propulsion Lab. (United States)
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An exoplanet mission based on a high-altitude balloon is a next logical step in humanity’s quest to explore Earthlike planets in Earthlike orbits orbiting Sunlike stars. The mission described here is capable of spectrally imaging debris disks and exozodiacal light around a number of stars spanning a range of infrared excesses, stellar types, and ages. The mission is designed to characterize the background near those stars, to study the disks themselves, and to look for planets in those systems. The background light scattered and emitted from the disk is a key uncertainty in the mission design of any exoplanet direct imaging mission, thus, its characterization is critically important for future imaging of exoplanets.
Cook, Cahoy, Chakrabarti, Douglas, Finn, Kuchner, Lewis, Marinan, Martel, Mawet, Mazin, Meeker, Mendillo, Serabyn, Stuchlik, and Swain: Planetary Imaging Concept Testbed Using a Recoverable Experiment–Coronagraph (PICTURE C)
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Timothy Cook, Kerri Cahoy, Supriya Chakrabarti, Ewan Douglas, Susanna C. Finn, Marc J. Kuchner, Nikole K. Lewis, Anne Marinan, Jason Martel, Dimitri Mawet, Benjamin Mazin, Seth R. Meeker, Christopher Mendillo, Gene Serabyn, David Stuchlik, Mark Swain, "Planetary Imaging Concept Testbed Using a Recoverable Experiment–Coronagraph (PICTURE C)," J. Astron. Telesc. Instrum. Syst. 1(4) 044001 (11 September 2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.1.4.044001