Planetary Imaging Concept Testbed Using a Recoverable Experiment - Coronagraph (PICTURE–C): A high altitude balloon experiment to directly image and characterize debris disks around nearby stars
Supriya Chakrabarti1, Christopher Mendillo2, Kuravi Hewawasam3, Glenn Howe3, Jason Martel3, Sunip Mukherjee4, Tim Cook2, Susanna C Finn2, Kerri Cahoy5, Marc Jason Kuchner6, Nikole K Lewis7, Dimitri Mawet8, Benjamin Mazin9, Eugene Serabyn10, David Stuchlik11 and Mark Swain12, (1)University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology, Lowell, MA, United States, (2)University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, United States, (3)UMass Lowell Center for Atmospheric Research, Lowell, MA, United States, (4)University off Massachusetts, Lowell, Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology, Lowell, United States, (5)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (7)Massachusetts Inst of Tech, Cambridge, MA, United States, (8)California Institute of Technology, Astronomy Department, Pasadena, CA, United States, (9)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States, (10)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (11)NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, United States, (12)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
