The Super-Earth Opportunity — Search for Habitable Exoplanets in the 2020s
by Renyu Hu, A. James Friedson, Christophe Sotin, Mario Damiano, Mark Swain, Michael Mischna, Neal Turner, Pin Chen, Richard Kidd, Robert West, Robert Zellem, Tiffany Kataria, Yasuhiro Hasagawa, Charles A. Beichman, Andrew Howard, Heather Knutson, Yuk Yung, Chris Reinhard, Dave Brain, Edwin Kite, Leslie Rogers, Hilkex Schlichting, Noah Planavsky, Rebekah Dawson, Robert Johnson, Sara Seager, and Wladimir Lyra
Published onMay 31, 2019
The Super-Earth Opportunity — Search for Habitable Exoplanets in the 2020s
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Abstract
The science return of detecting temperate exoplanets as large as 2 Re should be considered as one of the primary evaluation criteria to assess exoplanet missions. Given the implications on the size of space telescopes, this evaluation criteria should be applied independently from the assessment of capability to find a true Earth analog.
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