Published June 10, 2018
| Version v1
Conference paper
Planet formation imager: project update
Creators
- Monnier, John
- Kraus, Stefan
- Bonsor, Amy
- Baron, Fabien
- Berger, Jean
- Boyajian, Tabetha
- Chiavassa, Andrea
- Ciardi, David
- de Wit, Willem-Jan
- Dong, Ruobing
- Espaillat, Catherine
- Gallenne, Alexandre
- Gandhi, Poshak
- Gonzalez, Jean
- Haniff, Chris
- Hoenig, Sebastian
- Ilee, John
- Isella, Andrea
- Jensen, Eric
- Juhasz, Attila
- Kane, Stephen
- Kishimoto, Makoto
- Kley, Wilhelm
- Kral, Quentin
- Kratter, Kaitlin
- Labadie, Lucas
- Lacour, Sylvestre
- Laughlin, Greg
- Le Bouquin, Jean
- Michael, Michael
- Meru, Farzana
- Millan-Gabet, Rafaël
- Millour, Florentin
- Minardi, Stefano
- Morbidelli, Alessandro
- Mordasini, Chris
- Morlok, Andreas
- Mozurkewich, Dave
- Nelson, Richard
- Oudmaijer, Rene
- Packham, Chris
- Paladini, Claudia
- Panic, Olja
- Petrov, Romain
- Pope, Benjamin
- Pott, Joerg-Uwe
- Quiroga-Nuñez, Luis Henry
- Ramos Almeida, Cristina
- Raymond, Sean N.
- Regaly, Zsolt
- Reynolds, Mark
- Ridgway, Stephen
- Rinehart, Stephen
- Smith, Michael
- Stassun, Keivan
- Surdej, Jean
- Turner, Neal
- van Belle, Gerard
- Vasisht, Gautum
- Weigelt, Gerd
- Wishnow, Edward
- Wolf, Sebastian
- Zhao, Ming
- Zhu, Zhaohuan
- Schreiber, Matthias
- Duchêne, Gaspard
- Bayo, Amelia
- Olofsson, Johan
- ten Brummelaar, Theo
- Tristram, Konrad
- Wittkowski, Markus
- Young, John
- Wallace, Alexander
- Defrère, Denis
- Alonso-Herrero, Almudena
- Z'U~niga-Fern'Andez, Sebasti'An
- Mérand, Antoine
- Creech-Eakman, Michelle
- Tuthill, Peter
Contributors
Others:
- University of Michigan [Ann Arbor] ; University of Michigan System
- Department of Astronomy [Ann Arbor] ; University of Michigan [Ann Arbor] ; University of Michigan System-University of Michigan System
- Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG) ; Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG ) ; Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])
- Cavendish Laboratory ; University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM)
- Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE) ; Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS) ; COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur ; COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- European Southern Observatory (ESO)
- Universidad de Concepción [Chile]
- School of Physics and Astronomy [Southampton] ; University of Southampton
- Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA (UMR_8109)) ; Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris ; Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA) ; Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris ; Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- University of Cyprus [Nicosia] (UCY)
- Michelson Science Center (MSC) ; California Institute of Technology (CALTECH)
- Friedrich-Schiller-Universität = Friedrich Schiller University Jena [Jena, Germany]
- Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques (CRPG) ; Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Queen Mary University of London (QMUL)
- Institut für Astronomie, Universität Wien (IFA) ; Universität Wien
- ECLIPSE 2018 ; Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] (LAB) ; Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- School of Computer Science and Software Engineering [Australia] ; The University of Western Australia (UWA)
- National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO)
- Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique [Liège] ; Université de Liège
- Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIFR)
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering ; Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)-Institute of Ceramics and Glass
- Harbin University of Commerce [Heilongjiang]
- Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) ; Georgia State University ; University System of Georgia (USG)-University System of Georgia (USG)
- Space Sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research Institute (STAR) ; Université de Liège
Description
The Planet Formation Imager (PFI) is a near- and mid-infrared interferometer project with the driving sciencegoal of imaging directly the key stages of planet formation, including the young proto-planets themselves. Here,we will present an update on the work of the Science Working Group (SWG), including new simulations of duststructures during the assembly phase of planet formation and quantitative detection efficiencies for accretingand non-accreting young exoplanets as a function of mass and age. We use these results to motivate tworeference PFI designs consisting of a) twelve 3 m telescopes with a maximum baseline of 1.2 km focused onyoung exoplanet imaging and b) twelve 8 m telescopes optimized for a wider range of young exoplanets andprotoplanetary disk imaging out to the 150 K H2O ice line. Armed with 4×8 m telescopes, the ESO/VLTI canalready detect young exoplanets in principle and projects such as MATISSE, Hi-5 and Heimdallr are important PFI pathfinders to make this possible. We also discuss the state of technology development needed to makePFI more affordable, including progress towards new designs for inexpensive, small field-of-view, large aperturetelescopes and prospects for Cubesat-based space interferometry
Abstract
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Identifiers
- URL
- https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01901978
- URN
- urn:oai:HAL:hal-01901978v1