Direct Multi-Pixel Imaging and Spatially-Resolved Spectroscopy of a Potentially Habitable Exoplanet with the Solar Gravitational Lens
by Slava Turyshev, Michael Shao, Louis Friedman, Viktor T. Toth, Leon Alkalai, Janice Shen, Hanying Zhou, Nitin Arora, Artur Davoyan, Darren D. Garber, Henry Helvajian, Thomas Heinsheimer, Siegfried W. Janson, Les Johnson, Jared R. Males, Roy Nakagawa, Seth Redfield, Nathan Strange, Mark R. Swain, and David Van Buren
Published onMay 31, 2019
Direct Multi-Pixel Imaging and Spatially-Resolved Spectroscopy of a Potentially Habitable Exoplanet with the Solar Gravitational Lens
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Abstract
Direct high-resolution investigations of a potentially habitable exoplanet may result in finding extra-terrestrial life. This can be achieved with a telescope at the focal region of the Solar Gravitational Lens. Resulting facility is the only practical way to achieve a multi-pixel image at a km-scale resolution on the surface of an exoplanet.
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