Orbiting Starshade: Observing Exoplanets at visible wavelengths with GMT, TMT, and ELT
by John Mather, Jonathan Arenberg, Simone D'Amico, Webster Cash, Matthew Greenhouse, Anthony Harness, Tiffany Hoerbelt, Isabel Kain, Wolfgang Kausch, Stefan Kimeswenger, Carey Lisse, Stefan Martin, Stefan Noll, Eliad Peretz, Norbert Przybilla, Sara Seager, Stuart Shaklan, Ignas Snellen, and Phil Willems
Published onSep 30, 2019
Orbiting Starshade: Observing Exoplanets at visible wavelengths with GMT, TMT, and ELT
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Abstract
An orbiting starshade working with 30-m class ground-based telescopes would enable observations of molecular oxygen and water on an exo-Earth. The starshade provides the needed contrast and the telescope with advanced adaptive optics provides angular resolution, reduction of the sky background, imaging, and spectroscopy.
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