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Ames Center for Exoplanet Studies (ACES)

Exoplanet 8

Cross-disciplinary group advancing Exoplanet observations, theory, technology, and missions

ACES Goals:

Foster communication, build interdisciplinary efforts, provide a focal / contact point for internal
and external communication for Ames exoplanet activities
- Tom Greene, Director

ACES Functions:

  • Coordinate efforts on Ames exoplanet activities
  • Provide a forum for communicating latest science & technology results and share expertise
  • Advocate Ames activities within and beyond Ames
  • Identify and respond to mission and proposal activities
  • Support exoplanet-related activities in other Ames organizations and within the agency.

Bay Area Exoplanet Science Meetings held at the SETI Institute:

http://home.comcast.net/~tompgreene/BAESM/

Exoplanet colloquia and seminar talks at NASA Ames:

http://home.comcast.net/~tompgreene/ACES/

Ames Coronagraph Testbed Information:

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/research/2008/coron_lab.html

Coronagraph

Coronagraph technology for direct imaging of exo-Earths

#1 Awarded 3 proposals on which I am a Co-I, which provides significant funding towards the Ames Coronagraph Laboratory to develop coronagraph technology for direct imaging of exo-Earths.

The proposals are part of NASA ROSES TDEM (Technology development for Exoplanet Missions). Here they are:

Assessing the performance limits of internal coronagraphs through end-to-end modeling

Thermal Emission and Tidal Heating of the Heavy and Eccentric Planet XO-3b

Machalek, Pavel; Greene, Tom; McCullough, Peter R.; Burrows, Adam; Burke, Christopher J.; Hora, Joseph L.; Johns-Krull, Christopher M.; Deming, Drake L.

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