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