All interested researchers and students are invited to attend. No registration is required for the short course. Seating is limited and is available on a first come, first served basis.
Program
Talk 1 – “Hybrid Space-Ground Observatories” – John Mather, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Hybrid Observatory Missions, proposed and funded
- A Hybrid Starshade – Ground-based telescope concept for exoplanet characterization
- Feasibility and challenges
- Current efforts
Talk 2 – “Exploring New Worlds: Exoplanet Discoveries, Challenges, and Future Frontiers” – Amber Young, NASA Headquarters
- A Brief History of Exoplanet Discovery
- “Earth Cousins”: The Current Search for Habitable Worlds
- “Earth Twins”: How to Find, Identify, and Characterize Them
- Challenges and Future
Talk 3 – “Starshades” – Stuart Shaklan, JPL
- Principles of starshade operation
- Technology status
- Tolerances and optical performance for a hybrid observatory – KISS concept
- Imaging simulations
Talk 4 – “Seeing Clearly – Observing Through Earth’s Atmosphere” – Ahmed Soliman, JPL
- Brief history of challenges and discoveries
- Expected performance with a hybrid ground telescopes- starshade system
- Understanding the atmospheric turbulence & AO mitigation
- Learned lessons and future work
Talk 5 – “Extremely Large Telescopes – AO and Extreme AO” – Markus Kasper, European Southern Observatory
- Observatories under development: design overview, key capabilities and timeline
- State of the art of current and upcoming ExAO instruments for ELT
- Future ELT exoplanet imager and spectrograph instruments
Talk 6 – “Orbital Dynamics” – Eliad Peretz, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Observational, re-target requirements, payload capabilities and adaptations
- Classes of solutions and preferred ones
- Fuel and mission lifetime
Short Course Presentations
| Speaker | Affiliation | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| John Mather | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Hybrid Space-Ground Observatories (.pdf) |
| Amber Young | NASA Headquarters | Exploring New Worlds: Exoplanet Discoveries, Challenges, and Future Frontiers (.pdf) |
| Stuart Shaklan | JPL | Starshades (.pdf) |
| Ahmed Soliman | JPL | Seeing Clearly – Observing Through Earth's Atmosphere (.pdf) |
| Markus Kasper | European Southern Observatory | Extremely Large Telescopes – AO and Extreme AO (.pdf) |
| Eliad Peretz | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Orbital Dynamics (.pdf) |
