The Habitable Exoplanet (HabEx) Imaging Mission: preliminary science drivers and technical requirements

HabEx is one of four candidate flagship missions being studied in detail by NASA, to be submitted for consideration to the 2020 Decadal Survey in Astronomy and Astrophysics for possible launch in the 2030s. It will be optimized for direct imaging and spectroscopy of potentially habitable exoplanets,...

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Main Authors: Mennesson, Bertrand, Gaudi, Scott, Seager, Sara, Cahoy, Kerri, Domagal-Goldman, Shawn, Feinberg, Lee, Guyon, Olivier, Kasdin, Jeremy, Marois, Christian, Mawet, Dimitri, Tamura, Motohide, Mouillet, David, Prusti, Timo, Quirrenbach, Andreas, Robinson, Tyler, Rogers, Leslie, Scowen, Paul, Somerville, Rachel, Stapelfeldt, Karl, Stern, Daniel, Still, Martin, Turnbull, Margaret, Booth, Jeffrey, Kiessling, Alina, Kuan, Gary, Warfield, Keith
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Published: SPIE 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116467
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6892-6948