Direct Multipixel 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, 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 onSep 30, 2019
Direct Multipixel 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 be achieved with a modest astronomical telescope, delivered to the focal region of the Solar Gravitational Lens. It is the only practical way to obtain a multipixel image of the surface of a potentially habitable exoplanet at a kilometer-scale resolution.
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