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. only 2 50-day observing windows per year. The bulge must be observed whenever it can be. Significant “edge effect” penalties for regular interruptions. 0.5 year . SNe. program. Must sample high-. 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. DRAFT. 1. Multiple surveys with different requirements to implement the various science programs. High Latitude Survey (HLS): ~2,400 deg. 2. imaging and spectroscopic sky survey for BAO/RSD & WL (dark energy science), also used for archival studies by guest investigators. Chris Hirata. May 10, . 2011. f. or the /. usr. /WFIRST/HLS/WL group. General Notes. Exposure Time Calculations. Maturity greatly improved from previous version, with some losses. Assumed for numbers presented here: WFIRST 1c configuration. This is . Instrument. reference information. July. . 1, . 2015. The information in this file is excerpted from the SDT report dated March 10, 2015 (. Spergel. et al. arXiv:1503.03757) and from the February 13, 2015 SDT briefing to Paul Hertz. Both are accessible from the WFIRST site: . 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 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. Is . cosmic acceleration . caused by . a new energy component or by . the breakdown . of General Relativity (GR) . on cosmological . scales. ?. If . the cause is a new . energy component. , is its energy density . . 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. 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. David . Spergel. Princeton University. Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute. Outline. Next generation CMB experiments: Simons Observatory CMB-S4. Next generation optical/IR surveys: WFIRST. 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.