The Next Great Exoplanet Hunt

What strange new worlds will our future telescopes find? After reviewing the history of the missions that studied exoplanets, Heng and Winn compare and contrast future planned missions that will tackle the next frontier in this field.

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Main Authors: Heng, Kevin, Winn, Joshua Nathan
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Scientist 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98480
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4265-047X
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spelling mit-1721.1/984802022-09-29T19:30:53Z The Next Great Exoplanet Hunt Heng, Kevin Winn, Joshua Nathan Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Winn, Joshua Nathan What strange new worlds will our future telescopes find? After reviewing the history of the missions that studied exoplanets, Heng and Winn compare and contrast future planned missions that will tackle the next frontier in this field. 2015-09-14T14:10:00Z 2015-09-14T14:10:00Z 2015-06 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0003-0996 1545-2786 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98480 Heng, Kevin, and Joshua Winn. "The Next Great Exoplanet Hunt." American Scientist 103(3) (May-June 2015): 196. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4265-047X en_US http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2015/3/the-next-great-exoplanet-hunt American Scientist Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf American Scientist arXiv
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