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.
Photon Sources Diagram
This is a diagram from Dean Keithly’s admission to candidacy exam slide deck outlining the major light sources included in EXOSIMS and our model of WFIRST.
Prototype Module of Self-Assembling Space Telescope
Progress is being made on our 2018 NIAC Modular Active Self-Assembling Space Telescope Swarms! We have managed to draft a potential model of our proposed segment design. This model (while incomplete) demonstrates we can package the key subsystems of a spacecraft