The Microlensing Planet Search Program of the WFIRST Mission

Details The Microlensing Planet Search Program of the WFIRST Mission The Microlensing Planet Search Program of the WFIRST Mission

Oct 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010dps....42.2730b&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #42, #27.30

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Scientific paper

The recently Decadal Survey report, "New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics" recommends a new mission called WFIRST as its top ranked large space mission for the next decade. The WFIRST mission is to have two major science programs that will drive the design requirements: a dark energy program
and a microlensing planet search 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.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

No associations

Rating

The Microlensing Planet Search Program of the WFIRST Mission does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with The Microlensing Planet Search Program of the WFIRST Mission, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and The Microlensing Planet Search Program of the WFIRST Mission will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-1122470