Planetary Imaging Concept Testbed Using a Recoverable Experiment–Coronagraph (PICTURE C)

An exoplanet mission based on a high-altitude balloon is a next logical step in humanity’s quest to explore Earthlike planets in Earthlike orbits orbiting Sunlike stars. The mission described here is capable of spectrally imaging debris disks and exozodiacal light around a number of stars spanning a...

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Main Authors: Cook, Timothy, Cahoy, Kerri, Chakrabarti, Supriya, Douglas, Ewan, Finn, Susanna C., Kuchner, Marc, Lewis, Nikole, Marinan, Anne, Martel, Jason, Mawet, Dimitri, Mazin, Benjamin, Meeker, Seth R., Mendillo, Christopher, Serabyn, Gene, Stuchlik, David, Swain, Mark
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: SPIE 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106598
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7791-5124