A starshade for JWST: science goals and optimization

The James Webb Space Telescope will be an extraordinary observatory, providing a huge range of exciting new astrophysical results. However, by itself it will not be capable of directly imaging planets in the habitable zone of nearby stars, one of the most fascinating goals of astronomy for the comin...

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Main Authors: Seager, Sara, Cash, Webster, Brown, Robert A., Jordan, Ian, Roberge, Aki, Glassman, Tiffany, Lo, Amy, Pueyo, Laurent, Soummer, Rémi
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: SPIE 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58567
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6892-6948