Completing the Exoplanet Census with the WFIRST Microlensing Survey

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Sep 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011ess.....2.2103b&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, ESS meeting #2, #21.03

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The WFIRST mission is the top rated large space mission from last year's decadal survey. It has three major science programs, a microlensing planet search program, a dark energy program, and a general observer program. WFIRST's microlensing planet search program will provide a statistical census of exoplanets with masses greater than one tenth of an Earth mass and orbital separations ranging from 0.5AU to infinity. This includes analogs to all the Solar System’s planets except for Mercury, as well as most types of planets predicted by planet formation theories. In combination with Kepler's census of planets in shorter period orbits, WFIRST's planet search program will provide a complete statistical census of the planets that populate our Galaxy. The current status of the WFIRST mission design will be presented.

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