P32B:
Direct Imaging of Habitable Exoplanets: Progress and Future I


Session ID#: 10366

Session Description:
This session consists in a discussion on the potential of new and future facilities and modeling efforts designed to detect, image and characterize habitable exoplanets, studying their formation, evolution and also the existence of possible biospheres.  Topics to be covered in this session include signs of exoplanet habitability and global biosignatures that can be sought with upcoming instrumentation; instrument requirements and technologies to detect these markers; strategies for target selection and prioritization; and impacts of planetary system properties, ground-based and space telescope architectures, and impacts of instrument capabilities on the yield of potentially inhabited exoplanets.
Primary Convener:  Franck Marchis, SETI Institute, Mountain View, United States
Conveners:  Ramses M Ramirez, Cornell University, Astronomy, Ithaca, NY, United States and David Black, SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States
Chairs:  Franck Marchis, SETI Institute, Mountain View, United States and Ramses M Ramirez, Cornell University, Astronomy, Ithaca, NY, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Ramses M Ramirez, Cornell University, Astronomy, Ithaca, NY, United States
Index Terms:

5210 Planetary atmospheres, clouds, and hazes [PLANETARY SCIENCES: ASTROBIOLOGY]
5215 Origin of life [PLANETARY SCIENCES: ASTROBIOLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Characterizing Pale Blue Dots Around FGKM Stars (Invited) (80499)
Sarah Rugheimer, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, United Kingdom; University of Oxford, AOPP, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, United Kingdom, Lisa Kaltenegger, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States, Dimitar D. Sasselov, Harvard University, Astronomy, Cambridge, MA, United States and Antigona Segura, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Mexico City, Mexico
Why Alpha Centauri is a Particularly Good Target for Direct Imaging of Exoplanets. (Invited) (61278)
Ruslan Belikov, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Eduardo Bendek, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, Sandrine Thomas, LSST, Tucson, United States, Jared R Males, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and ACESat proposal team
Mapping the Region in the Nearest Star System to Search for Habitable Planets (48416)
Jack J Lissauer, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States and Billy Quarles, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States
Characterizing Exoplanets with 2-meter Class Space-based Coronagraphs (80661)
Tyler D Robinson, University of California Santa Cruz, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Mark S Marley, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States and Karl Stapelfeldt, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program, Pasadena, CA, United States
Global Surface Photosynthetic Biosignatures Prior to the Rise of Oxygen (84176)
Mary Nichole Parenteau, SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, United States, Nancy Y Kiang, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, Robert E. Blankenship, Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, Esther Sanromá, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain, Enric Palle Bago, Universidad de La Laguna, Departamento de Astrofísica, La Laguna, Spain, Tori M Hoehler, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Beverly K. Pierson, University of Puget Sound, Biology Department, Tacoma, WA, United States and Victoria Suzanne Meadows, University of Washington, Astronomy, Seattle, United States

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