The habitable exoplanet imaging mission (HabEx): science goals and projected capabilities
 (Conference Presentation)

Scott Gaudi; Bertrand Mennesson; Sara Seager; Keith Warfield; Gary Kuan; Alina Kiessling; the HABEX Science and Technology Definition Team

doi:10.1117/12.2314009

10 July 2018 The habitable exoplanet imaging mission (HabEx): science goals and projected capabilities (Conference Presentation)

Scott Gaudi, Bertrand Mennesson, Sara Seager, Keith Warfield, Gary Kuan, Alina Kiessling, the HABEX Science and Technology Definition Team

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Proceedings Volume 10698, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave; 106980M (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314009
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2018, Austin, Texas, United States

Abstract

The Habitable-Exoplanet Imaging Mission (HabEx) is a candidate flagship mission being studied by NASA and the astrophysics community in preparation of the 2020 Decadal Survey. The HabEx mission concept is a large (~4 to 6.5m) diffraction-limited optical space telescope, providing unprecedented resolution and contrast in the optical, with extensions into the near UV and near infrared domains. The primary goal of HabEx is to answer fundamental questions in exoplanet science, searching for and characterizing potentially habitable worlds, providing the first complete “family portraits” of planets around our nearest Sun-like neighbors and placing the solar system in the context of a diverse set of exoplanets. At the same time, HabEx will enable a broad range of Galactic, extragalactic, and solar system astrophysics, from resolved stellar population studies that inform the stellar formation history of nearby galaxies, to characterizing the life cycle of baryons as they flow in and out of galaxies, to detailed studies of bodies in our own solar system. We report here on our team’s efforts in defining a scientifically compelling HabEx mission that is technologically executable, affordable within NASA’s expected budgetary envelope, and timely for the next decade. In particular, we present architectures trade study results, quantify technical requirements and predict scientific yield for a small number of design reference missions, all with broad capabilities in both exoplanet science and cosmic origins science. This research was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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Scott Gaudi, Bertrand Mennesson, Sara Seager, Keith Warfield, Gary Kuan, Alina Kiessling, and the HABEX Science and Technology Definition Team "The habitable exoplanet imaging mission (HabEx): science goals and projected capabilities (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10698, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 106980M (10 July 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314009

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