P32B
Direct Imaging of Habitable Exoplanets: Progress and Future I
Wednesday, 16 December 2015: 11:20-12:20
2012 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners: Franck Marchis, SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, 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, Mountain View, CA, United States and Ramses M Ramirez, Cornell University, Astronomy, Ithaca, NY, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Ramses M Ramirez, Cornell University, Astronomy, Ithaca, NY, United States
11:20
Characterizing Pale Blue Dots Around FGKM Stars (Invited) (80499)
Sarah Rugheimer, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, United Kingdom; Simons Foundation, Collaboration on the Origins of Life, New York, NY, United States, Lisa Kaltenegger, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 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
11:32
Why Alpha Centauri is a Particularly Good Target for Direct Imaging of Exoplanets. (Invited) (61278)
Ruslan Belikov1, Eduardo Bendek1, Sandrine Thomas2, Jared Males3 and ACESat proposal team, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)LSST, Tucson, United States, (3)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
11:56
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 R Stapelfeldt, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
12:08
Global Surface Photosynthetic Biosignatures Prior to the Rise of Oxygen (84176)
Mary Nichole Parenteau, SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States, Nancy Y Kiang, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, Robert E. Blankenship, Washington University in St Louis, Departments of Biology and Chemistry, 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, Seattle, WA, United States
