Dean Keithly and the hard working maintainers of EXOSIMS finally have a new publication validating the number of exoplanets detectable via direct imaging by the WFIRST coronagraph. The paper includes planet population, observation time optimization, and scheduling of these observations.
The full citation is:
Dean R. Keithly, Dmitry Savransky, Daniel Garrett, Christian Delacroix, Gabriel Soto, “Optimal scheduling of exoplanet direct imaging single-visit observations of a blind search surveylt;/p,” J. Astron. Telesc. Instrum. Syst. 6(2), 027001 (2020), doi: 10.1117/1.JATIS.6.2.027001.
The paper is available under open access at http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.6.2.027001.
EXOSIMS – WFIRST Publication by Dean Keithly now in JATIS