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Planet Formation Imager (PFI): Project update and future directions
| العنوان: | Planet Formation Imager (PFI): Project update and future directions |
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| المؤلفون: | Monnier, John D., Kraus, Stefan, Ireland, Michael J. |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | Astrophysics |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics |
| الوصف: | The Planet Formation Imager (PFI) Project is dedicated to defining a next-generation facility that can answer fundamental questions about how planets form, including detection of young giant exoplanets and their circumplanetary disks. The proposed expansive design for a 12-element array of 8m class telescopes with >1.2 km baselines would indeed revolutionize our understanding of planet formation and is technically achievable, albeit at a high cost. It has been 10 years since this conceptual design process began and we give an overview of the status of the PFI project. We also review how a scaled back PFI with fewer large telescopes could answer a range of compelling science questions, including in planet formation and as well as totally different astrophysics areas. New opportunities make a space-based PFI more feasible now and we give a brief overview of new efforts that could also pave the way for the Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE) space mission. Comment: submitted to SPIE 2024 (Yokohama). arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1807.11555 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03896 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.2408.03896 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
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