Connecting Polarization to Exoplanet Yield Calculations for HWO

arXiv:2606.12842 · astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-06-11 · Read on arXiv

Jaren N. Ashcraft, Scott D. Will, Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer, Breann Sitarski, Christopher C. Stark, Ewan S. Douglas, John Krist, Brian Kern, Manuel Quijada

astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.EP

Submitted: 2026-06-11

Comments: 18 pages, 12 figures, Accepted to SPIE JATIS

Code: https://github.com/Jashcraf/hwo_pol

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Habitable Worlds Observatory — 8× in this paper
• Trace — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Deformable Mirror — 3× in this paper
• Fidelity — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Habitable Zone — 2× in this paper
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aperture — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• EXOSIMS15 and the Altruistic Yield Optimizer — 1× in this paper
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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