New Worlds Observer: Mission Overview

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Dec 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006aas...20916406l&link_type=abstract

2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #164.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society,

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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New Worlds Observer is an external occulter concept designed to detect optical wavelength light from Earth-like planets around solar neighborhood stars. Here we describe a multi-occulter mission scenario operating in conjunction with a UV-Optical telescope. We describe the expected NWO exo-planet detection performance, and the system architecture, and delineate the limits of the NWO system. 50% of the telescope time is devoted to exo-planet hunting, and 50% is open to general astrophysics. We include a brief discussion of the baseline, 4-meter class UV-Optical telescope and other possible astrophysics with NWO.

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