Additional Exoplanet Science Enabled by FINESSE

Robert T. Zellem, Jonathan J. Fortney, Mark R. Swain, Geoffrey Bryden, John W. Chapman, Nicolas B. Cowan, Tiffany Kataria, Laura Kreidberg, Michael R. Line, Julianne I. Moses, Vivien Parmentier, Gael M. Roudier, Kevin B. Stevenson
(Submitted on 19 Mar 2018)

FINESSE, a NASA MIDEX mission in Step 2, would conduct a large, uniform survey of exoplanet atmospheres and create a statistically significant sample for comparative planetology. FINESSE’s technical capabilities, driven by a scientific program to study planetary formation and climate mechanisms, enable additional exoplanet science presented here.

Comments:    White paper submitted to The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Exoplanet Science Strategy. 6 pages including title page, 4 figures, 1 table
Subjects:    Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
Cite as:    arXiv:1803.07163 [astro-ph.EP] (or arXiv:1803.07163v1 [astro-ph.EP] for this version)
Submission history
From: Robert Zellem 
[v1] Mon, 19 Mar 2018 20:59:57 GMT (1293kb)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07163