PPT-The WFIRST Microlensing Exoplanet Survey:

Figure of Merit David Bennett University of Notre Dame WFIRST WFIRST Microlensing Figure of Merit Primary FOM1 of planets detected for a particular mass and separation range Cannot be calculated analytically must be simulated. Microlensing. Planetary Systems.. Scott Gaudi. Matthew Penny. (OSU). WFIRST . Microlensing. Survey.. Microlensing. Survey Dataset. . Properties.. . ~. 3. sq. deg.. ~432 days.. ~80% of the area will have 2 million seconds of integration time.. NASA’s . Dark Energy Program. Linda . Sparke. (NASA HQ) . January 5, 2014. PhysPAG. @ AAS. © . 2013, . government sponsorship acknowledged. . 2004:. Dark Universe Mission Theme proposed to ESA’s Cosmic Vision programme. David . Bennett. University of Notre Dame. WFIRST. Unique Science from Space-based Survey. Exoplanet Survey Question #1: How do planetary systems form and evolve?. complementary to . Kepler. Exoplanet sensitivity down to sub-Earth masses at 0.5 AU - ∞. Imaging Coronagraph: . ExoPIC. Macintosh, . Traub. , . Kasdin. , Greene, Breckinridge, . Staplefeldt. , Marcy, . Savransky. , et al.. May and July. 1. Stanford Meetings. Ongoing series of science/engineering workshops. Imaging Science with the WFIRST Coronagraph. AAS Conference 2015. N. Jeremy Kasdin. Bruce Macintosh, Olivier . Guyon. , Tom Green, Wes . Traub. , Jim . Breckinridge. and. The WFIRST/AFTA Coronagraph Engineering team. Status Report -- . ExoPAG. Feng Zhao. AFTA Coronagraph Instrument Manager. 1/5 2014. 1. Copyright 2013 California Institute of Technology. Government sponsorship acknowledged. Outline. Introduction. Newly selected architecture description. Implementation & Validation Phase. Isobel Hook. Jean-Philippe Beaulieu . 1. Euclid’s time-domain data. Euclid’s deep fields will be observed several times . Of order 40 . sq. . deg. , observed ~ 40 times. . Yossi Shvartzvald NPP Fellow @ JPL. . Microlensing . Geometry.  .  .  . Microlensing . Geometry.  .  .  .  .  . Microlensing . Geometry.  .  .  .  .  . Microlensing . Geometry. in Globular Clusters. Margarita . Safonova. . Ancient Greeks knew that light travels in a straight line... Or you wouldn’t be able to cross the road!. Gravitational . Lensing. —. Astronomical Mirages. Measurement Method. Aparna. Bhattacharya. NASA GSFC, Notre Dame, UMBC. Collaborator. : . David Bennett. . J.Anderson. , . N. . Koshimoto. ,. V.Batista. , J.-P. Beaulieu, . I.A.Bond. , . A.Gould. , . The Ohio State University. (with the WFIRST SDTs and on behalf of the WFIRST . μSIT. ). Completing the Census of . Exoplanetary. Systems . with WFIRST.. 21. st. International . Microlnesing. Conference. California Institute of Technology. Copyright 2011 California Institute of Technology. Government sponsorship acknowledged.. The Missions. Euclid. Mapping the geometry of the Dark Universe. . 2004. : Dark Universe Mission proposed as a Theme to ESA’s Cosmic Vision programme. Exoplanets. Jake D. Turner. University of Virginia. astrojaketurner@gmail.com. Exoplanet Magnetic Fields . Motivation. Interior . structure . Star. -planet Interactions. Habitability. Jake . Turner (. 6. Extragalactic Microlensing. Wambsganss. . 2001. /sharp caustic crossing. /2,3-pt lens. Local Group vs. Extragalactic Microlensing. =k. Local Group Microlensing – . very very low optical depth.