The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is NASA’s next flagship observatory for the 2030s, following its top rank for large space projects in the Astro2020 decadal survey. With transformative ultraviolet, optical, […]
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The Pale Blue Dot: Using the Planetary Spectrum Generator to Simulate Signals from Hyper Realistic Exo-Earths
The atmospheres and surfaces of planets show tremendous amount of spatial variation, which has a direct effect on the spectrum of the object, even if this may not be spatially […]
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The Pale Blue Dot: Using the Planetary Spectrum Generator to Simulate Signals from Hyperrealistic Exo-Earths
Simulating realistic observations of exoplanet atmospheres requires consideration of several physical, astronomical, and technological aspects. The composition and physical structure of an atmosphere has to be modeled using three dimensional […]
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Habitable Zones, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Reports, Roadmaps, & Plans, Status Report, Stellar Cartography, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program (ExEP) Mission Star List for the Habitable Worlds Observatory (2023)
Full document The Astro 2020 Decadal Survey “Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s” has recommended that “after a successful mission and technology maturation program, NASA should […]
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Doppler Constraints on Planetary Companions to Nearby Sun-like Stars: An Archival Radial Velocity Survey of Southern Targets for Proposed NASA Direct Imaging Missions
Directly imaging temperate rocky planets orbiting nearby, Sun-like stars with a 6-m-class IR/O/UV space telescope, recently dubbed the Habitable Worlds Observatory, is a high priority goal of the Astro2020 Decadal […]
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Combining Photometry and Astrometry to Improve Orbit Retrieval of Directly Imaged Exoplanets
Future missions like Roman, HabEx, and LUVOIR will directly image exoplanets in reflected light. While current near infrared direct imaging searches are only sensitive to young, self-luminous planets whose brightness […]
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The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) Mission Concept Study Final Report
The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory, or HabEx, has been designed to be the Great Observatory of the 2030s. For the first time in human history, technologies have matured sufficiently to enable […]