3.5-meter Segmented-Mirror Robotic Space Telescope Mission White Paper III. Key Scientific Mission: Exoplanet Science with a Coronagraph

arXiv:2609.02577 · astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-09-02 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-09-02

Updated: 2026-09-17

Comments: 56 pages, 21 figures, 3.5-meter Segmented-Mirror Robotic Space Telescope Mission White Paper, Volume III: Key Scientific Mission: Exoplanet Science with a Coronagraph

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

Terminology

• Aperture — 16× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• alpha — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 5× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Core — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Metallicity — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Selection Bias — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• The LUVOIR Mission Concept Study Final Report
• Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of Extrasolar Planets
• The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) Mission Concept Study Final Report
• Direct imaging of exoplanets

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