Nautilus: A Very Large-Aperture, Ultralight Space Telescope for Exoplanet Exploration, Time-domain Astrophysics, and Faint Objects

by Daniel Apai, Alex Bixel, Benjamin V. Rackham, Glenn Schneider, Tom D. Milster, Dae Wook Kim, Ronguang Liang, Jonathan Arenberg, and John Grunsfeld

Published onSep 30, 2019

Abstract

Nautilus is a Probe-class mission concept that will explore the diversity of rocky exoplanets through transit spectroscopy, characterize habitable planets, and search for biosignatures in nearby transiting planets.

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