Detecting Earth-like Planets with the New Worlds Observer: The Stellar Targets

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Jan 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21340406t&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #404.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.196

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The New Worlds Observer (NWO) is a telescope-plus-starshade mission concept with the primary science goal of detecting and characterizing Earth-like planets orbiting within the habitable zones of nearby stars. Given the constraints on inner working angle and planet-to-star contrast ratio for the NWO mission, which stars emerge as the best targets for such a search? Using completeness calculations for each star and exposure times for a variety of exo-zodiacal background levels, this poster will identify and discuss the unique characteristics of the highest priority stars in the search for Earths.

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