Engineering the Search for Earth-like Exoplanets Sara Seager (MIT) and Mitchell Walker (Georgia Tech)

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Engineering the Search for Earth-like Exoplanets Sara Seager (MIT) and Mitchell Walker (Georgia Tech)

Batalha 2014 Thousands of Planets are Known, but none are yet Identified as Earth-Like

4 Observing an exoplanet in the glare of its host sun-like star requires starlight suppression to , Telescopes in space, above the blurring effects of Earth’s atmosphere are needed A large aperture telescope separates the planet and star, and provides collecting area

Engineering the Search for Earth-like Exoplanets The James Webb Space Telescope Amy Lo, Northrup Grumman Corporation Starlight Suppression: Technologies for Direct Imaging of Exoplanets Dmitri Savransky, Cornell University Realizing Large Structures in Space Jeremy Banik, Airforce Research Laboratory Sensing Controls for Space-Based Planet Finding Jonathan Black, Virginia Tech