Final Report for SAG 22: A Target Star Archive for Exoplanet Science
Present and upcoming NASA missions will be intensively observing a selected, partially overlapping set of stars for exoplanet studies. Key physical and chemical information about these stars and their systems is needed for planning observations and interpreting the results. A target star archive of such data would benefit a wide cross-section of the exoplanet community by enhancing the chances of mission success and improving the efficiency of mission observatories. It would also provide a common, accessible resource for scientific analysis based on standardized assumptions, while revealing gaps or deficiencies in existing knowledge of stellar properties necessary for exoplanetary system characterization.
Natalie R. Hinkel, Joshua Pepper, Christopher C. Stark, Jennifer A. Burt, David R. Ciardi, Kevin K. Hardegree-Ullman, Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, Ravi Kopparapu, Lokesh Mishra, Karan Molaverdikhani, Ilaria Pascucci, Tyler Richey-Yowell, E. J. Safron, David J. Wilson, Galen Bergsten, Tabetha S. Boyajian, J. A. Caballero, K. Cunha, Alyssa Columbus, Shawn D. Domagal-Goldman, Chuanfei Dong, R. M. Elowitz, Devanshu Jha, Archit Kalra, David W. Latham, Jacob Luhn, Carl Melis, Navya Nagananda, Eliad Peretz, Sabine Reffert, Kimberly Scarangella Smith, Keivan G. Stassun, Angelle Tanner, Noah Tuchow, Dimitri Veras, Jennifer G. Winters
Comments: main report: 25 pages including 5 tables and 3 figures; supplemental Appendices A-H also included (total 63 pages) with compiled materials and individual task force reports
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
Cite as: arXiv:2112.04517 [astro-ph.IM] (or arXiv:2112.04517v1 [astro-ph.IM] for this version)
Submission history
From: Natalie Hinkel
[v1] Wed, 8 Dec 2021 19:00:09 UTC (4,765 KB)
