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New Worlds, New Horizons and NASA's approach to the next decade of exoplanet discoveries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2011

Alan P. Boss ,
Douglas M. Hudgins  and
Wesley A. Traub
Alan P. Boss
Affiliation:
Carnegie Institution, 5241 Broad Branch Road NW Washington, DC 20015-1305, USA email: boss@dtm.ciw.edu
Douglas M. Hudgins
Affiliation:
NASA Headquarters, 300 E Street, SW Mail Suite 3W39, Washington, DC 20546, USA email: Douglas.M.Hudgins@nasa.gov
Wesley A. Traub
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive M/S 301-355, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA email: wtraub@jpl.nasa.gov
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Abstract

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Every ten years the astronomy and astrophysics community in the United States undertakes a survey intended to prioritize plans for major ground- and space-based astronomical facilities for the coming decade. New Worlds, New Horizons (NWNH) was released in August 2010 and represents the community's advice to the United States' funding agencies about the top priorities for 2010-2020. Here we focus on the recommendations of NWNH for space-based exoplanet missions to be considered by NASA, and on the plans developed to date for how NASA will respond to the science goals and missions set out for them by NWNH.

Keywords

planetary systemsastrometryspace vehiclesinstrumentation: high angular resolutiontechniques: interferometricphotometricradial velocitiesspectroscopic
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 6 , Symposium S276: The Astrophysics of Planetary Systems: Formation, Structure, and Dynamical Evolution , October 2010 , pp. 324 - 334
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2011

References

Blandford, R., et al. 2010, New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics (Washington, DC: The National Academies Press).Google Scholar