The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory mission concept

Bertrand Mennesson; Scott Gaudi; Sara Seager; Alina Kiessling; Keith Warfield

doi:10.1117/12.2564710

13 December 2020 The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory mission concept

Bertrand Mennesson, Scott Gaudi, Sara Seager, Alina Kiessling, Keith Warfield

Proceedings Volume 11443, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave; 1144320 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2564710
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2020, Online Only

Abstract

The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx), was one of four candidate flagship missions studied in detail by NASA, which were submitted for consideration to the 2020 Decadal Survey in Astronomy and Astrophysics for possible launch in the 2030s. For the first time in human history, technologies have matured sufficiently to enable an affordable space-based telescope mission capable of discovering and characterizing Earthlike planets orbiting nearby bright sun-like stars to search for signs of habitability and biosignatures. Such a mission can also be equipped with instrumentation that will enable broad and exciting general astrophysics and planetary science not possible from current or planned facilities. HabEx was designed to be the Great Observatory of the 2030s and beyond, with unique imaging and multi-object spectroscopic capabilities at wavelengths ranging from ultraviolet (UV) to near-IR.

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Bertrand Mennesson, Scott Gaudi, Sara Seager, Alina Kiessling, and Keith Warfield "The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory mission concept", Proc. SPIE 11443, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 1144320 (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2564710

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