Survey of Nearby FGK Stars at 160 μm with Spitzer (2009)
Tanner, Angelle, Beichman, Charles, Bryden, Geoff, Lisse, Carey, Lawler, Samantha
The Spitzer Space Telescope has advanced debris disk science tremendously with a wealth of information on debris disks around nearby A, F, G, K, and M stars at 24 and 70 μm with the MIPS photometer...
The far future of exoplanet direct characterization (2009)
Schneider, Jean, Leger, Alain, Fridlund, Malcolm, White, Glenn, Eiroa, Carlos, Henning, Thomas, ...
In this outlook we describe what could be the next steps of the direct characterization of habitable exoplanets after first the medium and large mission projects and investigate the benefits of the...
Survey of Nearby FGK Stars at 160 microns with Spitzer (2009)
Tanner, Angelle, Beichman, Charles, Bryden, Geoff, Lisse, Carey, Lawler, Samantha
The Spitzer Space Telescope has advanced debris disk science tremendously with a wealth of information on debris disks around nearby A, F, G, K and M stars at 24 and 70 microns with the MIPS...
High contrast imaging with the JWST NIRCAM coronagraph. (2009)
Green, Joseph J., Beichman, Charles, Basinger, Scott A., Horner, Scott, Meyer, Michael, Redding, David C., ...
Relative to ground-based telescopes, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will have a substantial sensitivity advantage in the 2.2-5pm wavelength range where brown dwarfs and hot Jupiters are...
Astrometric Detection of Earthlike Planets (2009)
Shao, Michael, Marcy, Geoff, Catanzarite, Joseph H., Edberg, Stephen J., Leger, Alain, Malbet, Fabien, ...
Astrometry can detect rocky planets in a broad range of masses and orbital distances and measure their masses and three-dimensional orbital parameters, including eccentricity and inclination, to...
Detectability of Terrestrial Planets in Multi-Planet Systems: Preliminary Report (2009)
Traub, Wesley A., Beichman, Charles, Boden, Andrew F., Boss, Alan P., Casertano, Stefano, Catanzarite, Joseph, ...
We ask if Earth-like planets (terrestrial mass and habitable-zone orbit) can be detected in multi-planet systems, using astrometric and radial velocity observations. We report here the preliminary...
Darwin -— an experimental astronomy mission to search for extrasolar planets (2009)
Cockell, Charles S., Herbst, Tom, Léger, Alain, Absil, O., Beichman, Charles, Benz, Willy, ...
As a response to ESA call for mission concepts for its Cosmic Vision 2015–2025 plan, we propose a mission called Darwin. Its primary goal is the study of terrestrial extrasolar planets and the...
Darwin---an experimental astronomy mission to search for extrasolar planets (2009)
Cockell, Charles S, Herbst, Tom, Léger, Alain, Absil, Olivier, Beichman, Charles, Benz, Willy, ...
As a response to ESA call for mission concepts for its Cosmic Vision 2015--2025 plan, we propose a mission called Darwin. Its primary goal is the study of terrestrial extrasolar planets and the...
Beichman, Charles, Baraffe, Isabelle, Crockett, Christopher, Dodson-Robinson, Sarah, Fortney, Jonathan, Ghez, Andrea, ...
Despite the revolution in our knowledge resulting from the detection of planets around mature stars, we know almost nothing about planets orbiting young stars because rapid rotation and active...
Cooray, Asantha, Amblard, Alexandre, Beichman, Charles, Benford, Dominic, Bernstein, Rebecca, Bock, James, ...
(Brief Summary) What is the total radiative content of the Universe since the epoch of recombination? The extragalactic background light (EBL) spectrum captures the redshifted energy released from...
Tanner, Angelle, Beichman, Charles, Akeson, Rachel, Ghez, Andrea, Grankin, Konstantin N., Herbst, William, ...
We present a review of precursor observing programs for the SIM PlanetQuest Key project devoted to detecting Jupiter mass planets around young stars. In order to ensure that the stars in the sample...
Alex Amblard, Beichman, Charles, Bock, James, Caldwell, Robert, Carlstrom, John, Church, Sarah, ...
When we began our study we sought to answer five fundamental implementation questions: 1) can foregrounds be measured and subtracted to a sufficiently low level?; 2) can systematic errors be...
Coronagraph Workshop papers (2007)
Traub, Wesley A., Abe, Lyu, Angel, Roger, Arenberg, Jon, Balasubramanian, Bala, Baudoz, Pierre, ...
This volume contains the written contributions corresponding to the oral presentations of about 45 authors at the Coronagraph Workshop 2006.
Tanner, Angelle, Beichman, Charles, Akeson, Rachel, Ghez, Andrea, Grankin, Konstantin N., Herbst, William, ...
We present a review of precursor observing programs for the SIM PlanetQuest Key project devoted to detecting Jupiter mass planets around young stars. In order to ensure that the stars in the sample...
A roadmap for NASA's search for other Earths (2006)
Beichman, Charles, Traub, Wesley A., Devirian, Michael, Burrows, Adam
NASA/JPL
Status of the Terrestrial Planet Finder Interferometer (TPF-I) (2006)
Beichman, Charles, Lawson, Peter, Lay, Oliver, Ahmed, Asif, Unwin, Steve, Johnston, K.
The interferometric version of the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF-I) has the potential to find and characterize earth-sized planets in the habitable zones of over 250 nearby stars and to search for...
Shao, Michael, Serabyn, Eugene, Levine, Bruce Martin, Beichman, Charles, Liu, Duncan, Martin, Stefan, ...
This talk describes a new concept for visible direct detection of Earth like extra solar planets using a nulling coronagraph instrument behind a 4m telescope in space. In the baseline design, a 4...
(abstract) The IRAS All-Sky Survey: Scientific and Technical Lessons Learned (2004)
Although the Infrared Astronomy Satellite (IRAS) was launched over 10 years ago, the IRAS legacy of catalogs, images, and data archives remains a vital source of information on the infrared sky. Over...
The Terrestrial Planet Finder (2004)
The Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) missions has as its goal the detection and characterization of earth-like planets around nearby stars. NASA is currently funding a number of small studies to look...
The Search for Terrestrial Planets: What Do we Need to Know? (2002)
The goal of finding and characterizing habitable planets in other solar systems represents one of humanity's greatest scientific challenges. NASA and ESA have initiated studies of missions that could...
Captain Cook, the Terrestrial Planet Finder and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (2002)
Over two hundred years ago Capt. James Cook sailed up Whitsunday Passage, just a few miles where we now sit, on a voyage of astronomical observation and discovery that remains an inspiration to us...