Planetary Imaging Concept Testbed Using a Recoverable Experiment-Coronagraph (PICTURE C)

Timothy Cook; Kerri Cahoy; Supriya Chakrabarti; Ewan Douglas; Susanna C. Finn; Marc Kuchner; Nikole Lewis; Anne Marinan; Jason Martel; Dimitri Mawet; Benjamin Mazin; Seth R. Meeker; Christopher Mendillo; Gene Serabyn; David Stuchlik; Mark Swain

doi:10.1117/1.JATIS.1.4.044001

Planetary Imaging Concept Testbed Using a Recoverable Experiment-Coronagraph (PICTURE C)

Timothy Cook, Kerri Cahoy, Supriya Chakrabarti, Ewan Douglas, Susanna C. Finn, Marc Kuchner, Nikole Lewis, Anne Marinan, Jason Martel, Dimitri Mawet, Benjamin Mazin, Seth R. Meeker, Christopher Mendillo, Gene Serabyn, David Stuchlik, Mark Swain

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	044001
Journal	Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
Volume	1
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.1.4.044001
State	Published - Oct 1 2015
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

coronagraph
direct imaging
exoplanet
high-altitude balloon

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Control and Systems Engineering
Instrumentation
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Mechanical Engineering
Space and Planetary Science

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Cook, T., Cahoy, K., Chakrabarti, S., Douglas, E., Finn, S. C., Kuchner, M., Lewis, N., Marinan, A., Martel, J., Mawet, D., Mazin, B., Meeker, S. R., Mendillo, C., Serabyn, G., Stuchlik, D., & Swain, M. (2015). Planetary Imaging Concept Testbed Using a Recoverable Experiment-Coronagraph (PICTURE C). Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 1(4), Article 044001. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.1.4.044001

Cook, T, Cahoy, K, Chakrabarti, S, Douglas, E, Finn, SC, Kuchner, M, Lewis, N, Marinan, A, Martel, J, Mawet, D, Mazin, B, Meeker, SR, Mendillo, C, Serabyn, G, Stuchlik, D & Swain, M 2015, 'Planetary Imaging Concept Testbed Using a Recoverable Experiment-Coronagraph (PICTURE C)', Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, vol. 1, no. 4, 044001. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.1.4.044001

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