TY - GEN
T1 - The Planetary Systems Imager for TMT
T2 - Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX 2022
AU - The PSI Team
AU - Sallum, Steph
AU - Millar-Blanchaer, Maxwell A.
AU - Batalha, Natasha
AU - Wang, Jason
AU - Martinez, Raquel
AU - Fitzgerald, Michael P.
AU - Skemer, Andy
AU - Jensen-Clem, Rebecca
AU - Mazin, Benjamin A.
AU - Chun, Mark
AU - Guyon, Olivier
AU - Hinz, Phil
AU - Males, Jared
AU - Max, Claire
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 SPIE.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The Planetary Systems Imager (PSI) is a second-generation exoplanet detection and characterization instrument concept for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). PSI will enable extreme adaptive optics imaging and spectroscopy from the visible into the infrared. Its high contrast, coupled with TMT’s sensitivity, will access entirely new regions of exoplanet parameter space. Here we describe the driving exoplanet science cases for PSI, including detecting and characterizing rocky planets around nearby M dwarfs, constraining atmospheric and surface compositions and variability, measuring accretion onto protoplanets on Solar System orbital scales, and more. We present the top level instrument requirements for each subsystem, which we derive from these science cases and inform using simulations. We discuss PSI’s expected science outcomes for exoplanet studies, and also highlight examples of its potential for Solar System, galactic, and extragalactic science.
AB - The Planetary Systems Imager (PSI) is a second-generation exoplanet detection and characterization instrument concept for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). PSI will enable extreme adaptive optics imaging and spectroscopy from the visible into the infrared. Its high contrast, coupled with TMT’s sensitivity, will access entirely new regions of exoplanet parameter space. Here we describe the driving exoplanet science cases for PSI, including detecting and characterizing rocky planets around nearby M dwarfs, constraining atmospheric and surface compositions and variability, measuring accretion onto protoplanets on Solar System orbital scales, and more. We present the top level instrument requirements for each subsystem, which we derive from these science cases and inform using simulations. We discuss PSI’s expected science outcomes for exoplanet studies, and also highlight examples of its potential for Solar System, galactic, and extragalactic science.
KW - adaptive optics
KW - exoplanets
KW - Extremely Large Telescopes
KW - high-contrast imaging
KW - integral field spectroscopy
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U2 - 10.1117/12.2630423
DO - 10.1117/12.2630423
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85178516868
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX
A2 - Evans, Christopher J.
A2 - Bryant, Julia J.
A2 - Motohara, Kentaro
PB - SPIE
Y2 - 17 July 2022 through 22 July 2022
ER -