PPT-WFIRST-AFTA Ops Concept Overview

DRAFT 1 Multiple surveys with different requirements to implement the various science programs High Latitude Survey HLS 2400 deg 2 imaging and spectroscopic sky survey for BAORSD amp WL dark energy science also used for archival studies by guest investigators. 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. 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: . 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. 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 . ). Presentation to P. Hertz April 19, 2013. . Neil . Gehrels. (GSFC). SDT . Co-Chair. David . Spergel. (Princeton) . . SDT Co-Chair. Kevin Grady (GSFC) Study Manager . & . Project Team. 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. 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. 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. ATLANTA WIHS. CHRISTINA MEHTA, PhD. ANNA RUBTSOVA, PhD. Concept Process Overview. “I’ve got a research idea for WIHS. What do I do next?”. Start with Atlanta WIHS website: . http://www.wihs.emory.edu/science/new_concept.html. Tom Greene and Wes Traub. 1. ExoPAG-8 . Meeting, Denver CO. 5. . October 2013. © 2013 California Institute of Technology. Government sponsorship acknowledged.. The AFTA Mission. The 2010 Decadal Survey recommended WFIRST, a wide-field infrared survey telescope, for dark energy and exoplanets (gravitational microlensing).