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Toward an Exoplanet Roadmap. ExoPAG 8 Meeting Denver, CO October 5+6, 2012 Scott Gaudi

Goal. To develop a holistic, broad, unified, and coherent exoplanet roadmap for the next years, with community consensus, focusing on areas where NASA can contribute.

Why? Thesis: A community consensus going into the mid-decadal review, and particularly the next decadal survey, will improve the chances that our priorities will be executed and/or highly ranked.

Hasn’t this been done many many times? Yes. – Exoplanet Task Force (chaired by J. Lunine) – Exoplanet Community Report (Lawson, Traub & Unwin) Hard work has largely been done. Were these effective? If no, why not?

WFIRST+C Discussion at ExoPAG 7. Scheduled talk from David Spergel on AFTA, but… Brief summary of AFTA SDT activities up to that point. Group discussion: –“Does the community endorse putting a coronagraph on AFTA/WFIRST, even if it means forgoing some future technology development opportunities and/or other small-scale direct imaging missions?” Unanimous yes! This was considered an important endorsement by NASA.

Science of Exoplanets. Pale Blue Dots vs. Exoplanet Astrophyics. Finding and characterizing a ‘pale blue dot’ remains a long-term goal. But there are many other exoplanet science questions that we can and should address in the interim. Many of these will likely bear directly on our understanding of habitable worlds. Let’s take a step back: what are the ‘big’ science questions in exoplanets?

Inquiry Areas. Physics of Planet Formation and Evolution. Physics of Planetary Atmospheres and Interiors. Physics, Frequency, and Evolution of Habitability.

Tools. Demographics. Characterization. Census and characterization of nearby systems.

Goals. A Complete Exoplanet (Statistical) Census. Characterization of a Diversity of Other Worlds. Surveying Nearby Planetary System and Searching for Habitable Climates.

RV Surveys AFTA-WFIRST Kepler Ground-Based Direct Imaging SIMHST/Spitzer JWST EChO GAIA Ground-Based Transit Surveys TESS Flagship DI A Complete Exoplanet Census Characterization of a Diversity of Other Worlds. Surveying Nearby Planetary Systems and Searching for Habitable Climates Protoplanetary and Debris Disk Observations Theory Physics, Frequency, Evolution of Habitability Physics of Planetary Atmospheres and Interiors Physics of Planet Formation and Evolution

Habitable Planets. High Mass (>0.5M Sun ) ★ sLow Mass (<0.5M Sun ) ★ s FrequencyHabitabilityFrequencyHabitability CurrentKepler-RV MEarth - FutureRV? WFIRST-AFTA? RV? Astrometry? ? Direct Imaging Mission TESS PLATO? MEarth TESS PLATO? JWST NGELTs? “Small Black Shadow”“Pale Blue Dot”

Kepler JWST WFIRST+C F-DIM: (Flagship Direct Imaging Mission) F-DIM: (Flagship Direct Imaging Mission) Transit Char. Mission? HST Spitzer TESS Science Roadmap Astrometry Mission? A Complete Exoplanet Census Characterization of a Diversity of Other Worlds Our Nearest Neighbors: Surveying Nearby Planetary Systems and Searching for Habitable Climates Our Nearest Neighbors: Surveying Nearby Planetary Systems and Searching for Habitable Climates Ground-Based Mission-Supporting Observations Mission Roadmap Mission Roadmap

Mission Matrix, e.g. F-DIM

Some Open Questions. Do we need additional capabilities for characterization of exoplanets? How do we measure the masses of the nearby habitable planets? What is the role of mid-IR interferometry? How do we achieve a consensus plan, particularly for the F-DIM, in time for the next decadal review? Others?