&lt;title&gt;Extrasolar planetary detection via stellar occultation: a novel "smaller, cheaper, faster" concept employing the Hubble Space Telescope&lt;/title&gt;

Cocks, F. H.; Bischoff, Jeffrey E.; Watkins, Seth; Higuchi, Ken; Bély, Pierre Y.

doi:10.1117/12.255124

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“…15 Another concept for a coorbital occulting sphere (co-orbiting with Hubble) was also discussed. 16 A mission concept from the late 1990s, called UMBRAS, was an occulting body but was not apodized. 17 In the early 2000s, there was an occulter concept, called BOSS, which was to work with the Next Generation Space Telescope (now called the James Webb Space Telescope), which used an apodization on a transmissive film.…”

Section: Day 1: Starshade Basicsmentioning

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Special Section on Starshades: Overview and a Dialogue

Arenberg

Harness

Jensen-Clem

2021

J. Astron. Telesc. Instrum. Syst.

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This special section is dedicated to starshades: science, engineering, technology, and programmatics. Our reasons for organizing this special section are several fold. First as a new technology and with research accomplished in many institutions, recent results are widely scattered in the literature. As such, we see great value in colocating many of the most recent results. This guest editorial summarizes the 19 contributed papers as the result of a special call for papers. Since this is a rapidly maturing technology, we wanted to colocate a primer with the most current work in the field. It is hoped that this primer will provide a tutorial to the starshade concept and pathway to the literature not in this section. In doing so, we hope to widen the starshade community in terms of engineering and scientific engagements. This tutorial takes the form of a dialogue, where frequently asked questions are answered.

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Section: Day 1: Starshade Basicsmentioning

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Special Section on Starshades: Overview and a Dialogue

Arenberg

Harness

Jensen-Clem

2021

J. Astron. Telesc. Instrum. Syst.

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“…15 Another concept for a co-orbital occulting sphere (co-orbiting with Hubble) was also discussed. 16 A mission concept from the late 1990's, called UMBRAS, was an occulting body, but was not apodized. 17 In the early 2000's there was an occulter concept, called BOSS, which was to work with the Next Generation Space Telescope (now called the James Webb Space Telescope) which used an apodization on a transmissive film.…”

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Guest Editorial: Overview of the Special Issue and a Dialog on Starshades

Arenberg,

Harness,

Jensen-Clem

2021

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This special issue is dedicated to starshades: science, engineering, technology and programmatics. Our reasons for organizing this special issue are several fold. First as a new technology and with research accomplished in many institutions, recent results are widely scattered in the literature. As such, we see great value in co-locating many of the most recent results. This guest editorial summarizes the 19 contributed papers as the result of a special call for papers. Since this is a rapidly maturing technology, we wanted to co-locate a primer with the most current work in the field. It is hoped that this primer will provide a tutorial to the starshade concept and pathway to the literature not in this issue. In doing so, we hope to widen the starshade community in terms of engineering and scientific engagements. This tutorial takes the form of a dialog, where frequently asked questions are answered.

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“…Mission concepts to detect extra-solar planets using an external occulter have a long history [3][4][5][6][7]. However, none of these previous mission concepts were able to demonstrate sufficient starlight suppression for the detection of terrestrial planets.…”

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Optical performance of the New Worlds Occulter

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Comptes Rendus. Physique

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The New Worlds Observer (NWO) is a multiple spacecraft mission that is capable of detecting and characterizing extra-solar planets and planetary systems. NWO consists of an external occulter and a generic space telescope, flying in tandem. The external occulter has specific requirements on its shape and size, while the telescope needs no special modification beyond that required to do high-quality astrophysical observations. The occulter is a petal-shaped, opaque screen that creates a high-suppression shadow large enough to accommodate the telescope. This article reports on the optical performance of the novel New Worlds occulter design. It also introduces two new aspects of its optical performance which enhance the detectability of extra-solar planets. We also include a brief discussion of the buildability and the tolerances of the occulter. It is also shown that an occulter design can be found for any set of science requirements. We show that NWO is a viable mission concept for the study of extra-solar planets.

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<title>Extrasolar planetary detection via stellar occultation: a novel "smaller, cheaper, faster" concept employing the Hubble Space Telescope</title>

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Special Section on Starshades: Overview and a Dialogue

Special Section on Starshades: Overview and a Dialogue

Guest Editorial: Overview of the Special Issue and a Dialog on Starshades

Optical performance of the New Worlds Occulter

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