WAET: low-cost ground based telescopes for accelerated exoplanet direct imaging
by Benjamin Monreal, Dominic Oddo, Christian Rodriguez, Reed Riddle, and Chuanfei Dong
Published onSep 30, 2019
WAET: low-cost ground based telescopes for accelerated exoplanet direct imaging
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Abstract
The Wide Aperture Exoplanet Telescope (WAET) is a new ground-based optical telescope layout with an extremely asymmetric aperture, which results in new exoplanet imaging reach at very low cost. We suggest that hWAET, a 100×2m telescope, can be built for $150M in the 2020s, and >300m versions merit further R&D.
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