P33B:
Direct Imaging of Habitable Exoplanets: Progress and Future II Posters


Session ID#: 8592

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:

Correlated PSF Subtraction Using an Archive (61899)
Benjamin Gerard1, Marois Christian1,2 and Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey team, (1)University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, (2)National Research Council, Herzberg, Victoria, BC, Canada
Light curves, Spherical and Bond albedos of Jupiter, Saturn, and exoplanets. (63819)
Ulyana Dyudina, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States
Surface Temperatures of Exoplanets (63926)
Marie Weisfeiler, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Donald L Turcotte, University of California Davis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States and Louise H Kellogg, University of California - Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States
A Statistical Model for Determining the Probability of Observing Exoplanetary Radio Emissions (81946)
Rodolfo Garcia1, Mary Knapp1, Daniel Winterhalter2 and Walid Majid3, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Constraining Methane Abundance and Cloud Properties from the Reflected Light Spectra of Directly Imaged Exoplanets (82102)
Roxana Lupu, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute Moffett Field, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Mark S Marley, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States and Nikole K Lewis, Massachusetts Inst of Tech, Cambridge, MA, United States
Systematic Search of the Nearest Stars for Exoplanetary Radio Emission: Preliminary Results from LOFAR (83871)
Daniel Winterhalter, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Mary Knapp, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
A Space Mission Concept to Directly Image the Habitable Zone of Alpha Centauri (86235)
Eduardo Bendek1, Ruslan Belikov2, Jared R Males3, Sandrine Thomas2 and Julien Lozi4, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (4)NAOJ National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Subaru Telescope, hilo, HI, United States

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