The exo-zodiacal disk mapper

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Apr 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998exdu.work..287p&link_type=abstract

Exozodiacal Dust Workshop, p. 287

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Zodiacal Dust, Solar Neighborhood, Interferometers, Stellar Envelopes, Solar System, Space Missions, Terrestrial Planets

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Zodiacal dust around neighboring stars could obscure the signal of terrestrial planets observed with the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) if that dust is similar to that in the Solar System. Unfortunately, little is known about the presence, or frequency of occurrence of zodiacal dust around stars and so the relevance of zodiacal dust to the design of the TPF, or to the TPF mission, is unknown. It is likely that direct observation of zodiacal dust disks will be necessary to confidently determine the characteristics of individual systems. A survey of a large number of stars in the solar neighborhood that could be candidates for observation with TPF should be undertaken. We present a concept for a space mission to undertake a sensitive, large-scale survey capable of characterizing solar-system-like zodiacal dust around 400 stars within 20 pc of the Sun.

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