P51E:
Detection and Characterization of Habitable Exoplanets: Progress and Future I

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Session ID#: 32270

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:  Douglas A. Caldwell, SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States and Ramses M Ramirez, Cornell University, Astronomy, Ithaca, NY, United States
Chairs:  Franck Marchis, SETI Institute, Mountain View, United States and Douglas A. Caldwell, SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Franck Marchis, SETI Institute, Mountain View, United States
Index Terms:

5215 Origin of life [PLANETARY SCIENCES: ASTROBIOLOGY]
5225 Early environment of Earth [PLANETARY SCIENCES: ASTROBIOLOGY]
5455 Origin and evolution [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5494 Instruments and techniques [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Kepler's Final Survey Catalog (Invited) (294877)
Susan Elizabeth Mullally, SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States
Potential Habitable Zone Exomoon Candidates and Radial Velocity Estimates for Giant Kepler HZ Candidates. (209217)
Michelle Hill1, Stephen Kane2, Ravi Kopparapu3, Eduardo Seperuelo Duarte4, Dawn Gelino5 and Robert Whittenmyer1, (1)University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia, (2)San Francisco State University, Physics and Astronomy, San Francisco, CA, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar System Exploration Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Federal Institute of Rio de Janiero, Rio de Janiero, Brazil, (5)NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States
The Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission (HabEx) (230417)
Bertrand Mennesson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and The HabEx Science and Technology Definition Team
The LUVOIR Decadal Mission Concept (236599)
Giada Nicole Arney1, Julie Crooke2, Shawn D Domagal-Goldman2, Debra Fischer3, Bradley Peterson4, Britney Schmidt5 and The LUVOIR Team Stdt6, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (2)NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States, (3)Yale University, Astronomy, New Haven, United States, (4)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, (5)Cornell University, Astronomy and Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
NEID: A next generation Doppler spectrometer for exoplanet discovery and followup at the WIYN telescope (284068)
Chad Frederick Bender, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and The NEID Instrument Team
Methods to Directly Image Exoplanets around Alpha Centauri and Other Multi-Star Systems (301196)
Ruslan Belikov1, Dan Sirbu2, Eduardo Bendek3 and Eugene Pluzhnik1, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, CA, United States, (3)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States
A Statistical Comparative Planetology Approach to the Hunt for Habitable Exoplanets and Life Beyond the Solar Syste (206761)
Dorian S Abbot, University of Chicago, Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States, Jacob L Bean, University of Chicago, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Chicago, IL, United States and Eliza Kempton, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, United States
A statistical test for the habitable zone concept (218602)
Jade Checlair, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States and Dorian S Abbot, University of Chicago, Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States

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