Canadian contributions studies for the WFIRST instruments

Autor: Olivier Daigle, Christian Marois, Frédéric Grandmont, Simon Thibault, Denis G. Laurin, J. Dupuis, Marie-Eve Ducharme, Denis Brousseau, David Lafrenière, G. Cretot-Richert, D. Schade, Jean-François Lavigne, Luc Levesque, Jérôme Maire, Étienne Artigau, N. Rowlands
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: SPIE Proceedings.
ISSN: 0277-786X
DOI: 10.1117/12.2232641
Popis: WFIRST-AFTA is the NASA’s highest ranked astrophysics mission for the next decade that was identified in the New World, New Horizon survey. The mission scientific drivers correspond to some of the deep questions identified in the Canadian LRP2010, and are also of great interest for the Canadian scientists. Given that there is also a great interest in having an international collaboration in this mission, the Canadian Space Agency awarded two contracts to study a Canadian participation in the mission, one related to each instrument. This paper presents a summary of the technical contributions that were considered for a Canadian contribution to the coronagraph and wide field instruments.
Databáze: OpenAIRE