PPT-Developing WFIRST Exoplanet Mass

Measurement Method Aparna Bhattacharya NASA GSFC Notre Dame UMBC Collaborator David Bennett JAnderson N Koshimoto VBatista JP Beaulieu IABond AGould . 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-. 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. 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. 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 . 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. Exoplanets. Jake D. Turner. University of Virginia. astrojaketurner@gmail.com. Exoplanet Magnetic Fields . Motivation. Interior . structure . Star. -planet Interactions. Habitability. Jake . Turner (. Exoplanet Exploration Program. Overview. Gary . Blackwood, Exoplanet Exploration Program . Manager. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of . Technology. October 5, 2013. 1. Copyright 2013 California Institute of Technology. Government sponsorship acknowledged. Organization Chart. . 326. Program Science Office. Chief Scientist – Dr. K. Stapelfeldt. Deputy Chief Scientist – Dr. E. . Mamajek. . 730. NASA Exoplanet . Exploration Program Office. Program Manager – Dr. G. Blackwood.