Significant optical engineering advances at the University of Arizona are being made for
design, fabrication, and construction of next generation astronomical telescopes. This …

The search for habitable planets has revealed many planets that can vary greatly from an
Earth analog environment. These include highly eccentric orbits, giant planets, different bulk …

The discovery and characterization of Earth-sized planets that are in, or near, a tidally locked
state are of crucial importance to understanding terrestrial planet evolution. For this purpose …

Exoplanets that receive stellar irradiance approximately equal to Earth's or less have been
discovered and many are suitable for spectral characterization. Here, we focus on the …

Radial-velocity (RV) surveys have discovered hundreds of exoplanetary systems but suffer
from a fundamental degeneracy between planet mass M p and orbital inclination i. In this …

Reflection spectroscopy holds great promise for characterizing the atmospheres and
surfaces of potentially habitable terrestrial exoplanets. The surface of the modern Earth …

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (formerly known as WFIRST) is a flagship
astrophysics mission planned for launch in 2025. The coronagraph instrument (CGI) on …

Context. The next generation of space-based observatories will characterize the
atmospheres of low-mass, temperate exoplanets with the direct-imaging technique. This will …

Context. Polarisation is a powerful remote-sensing tool to study the nature of particles
scattering the starlight. It is widely used to characterise interplanetary dust particles in the …

This study aims to identify exemplary science cases for observing N 2 O, CH 3 Cl, and CH 3
Br in exoplanet atmospheres at abundances consistent with biogenic production using a …