Connecting Polarization To Exoplanet Yield Calculations For Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO)
Overview of the simulation pipeline components used in this work. The modeling begins with hwo pol, a Poke…
Japan’s Possible Contributions For Coronagraph Of The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO)
Example of the optical design for the NIR coronagraph. (Top) Overall layout of the optical system, where the…
Predictive Rankings of the Probability for Temperate Terrestrial Worlds for the HWO ExEP Mission Star List
The simulated occurrence rates of planets in both simulated (blue) and known (orange) planetary systems around nearby stars.…
The Unique Ability Of The Hubble Space Telescope To Characterize Young Exoplanet Environments
Modified Pass et al. (2025) Figure 2 showing an updated Cosmic Shoreline for exoplanets orbiting full convective M…
HWO Target Stars and Systems: Activity and Rotation Catalog (ARC) of Potential Target Stars for the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Upper panels: Equatorial rotational velocity (veq) vs. projected rotational velocity (v sin i) for stars in Tiers 1,…
PEEPSS: Photonic-Enabled ExoPlanet Spectroscopic Sensor for the Habitable Worlds Observatory
The complete proposed wavefront sensing process. (Starting from the top left and going around clockwise) The full coronagraph…
Continuing To Advance European High Contrast Imaging Research And Development Towards HWO And LIFE
Artist’s impression of the LIFE nulling-interferometry mission, consisting of four collector spacecraft in a rectangular array configuration sending…
Searching For Life-As-We-Don’t-Know-It: Mission-relevant Application of Assembly Theory For Exoplanet Life Detection
Potentially habitable worlds – Grok via Astrobiology.com This white paper introduces a framework for applying Assembly Theory (AT)…
Space telescopes at light speed
Light is the fastest phenomenon in the universe, clocking in at just under 300,000 kilometers per second. The…