William Danchi

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...

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...

The prototype colliding-wind pinwheel WR 104 (2007)

Tuthill, Peter, Monnier, John, Lawrance, Nicholas, Danchi, William, Owocki, Stan, Gayley, Kenneth

Results from the most extensive study of the time-evolving dust structure around the prototype "Pinwheel" nebula WR 104 are presented. Encompassing 11 epochs in three near-infrared filter bandpasses,...

Pinwheels in the Quintuplet Cluster (2006)

Tuthill, Peter, Monnier, John, Tanner, Angelle, Figer, Donald, Ghez, Andrea, Danchi, William

The five enigmatic Cocoon stars after which the Quintuplet cluster was christened have puzzled astronomers since their discovery. Their extraordinary cool, featureless thermal spectra have been...