The Planetary Systems Imager for TMT: driving science cases and top level requirements

Stephanie Sallum; Max A. Millar-Blanchaer; Natasha Batalha; Jason Wang; Raquel Martinez; Michael P. Fitzgerald; Andy Skemer; Rebecca Jensen-Clem; Benjamin A. Mazin; Mark Chun; Olivier Guyon; Phil Hinz; Jared Males; Claire Max

doi:10.1117/12.2630423

29 August 2022 The Planetary Systems Imager for TMT: driving science cases and top level requirements

Stephanie Sallum, Max A. Millar-Blanchaer, Natasha Batalha, Jason Wang, Raquel Martinez, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Andy Skemer, Rebecca Jensen-Clem, Benjamin A. Mazin, Mark Chun, Olivier Guyon, Phil Hinz, Jared Males, Claire Max

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Proceedings Volume 12184, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX; 1218446 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630423
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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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.

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Stephanie Sallum, Max A. Millar-Blanchaer, Natasha Batalha, Jason Wang, Raquel Martinez, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Andy Skemer, Rebecca Jensen-Clem, Benjamin A. Mazin, Mark Chun, Olivier Guyon, Phil Hinz, Jared Males, and Claire Max "The Planetary Systems Imager for TMT: driving science cases and top level requirements", Proc. SPIE 12184, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX, 1218446 (29 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630423

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