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The Astrometric Imaging Telescope: Near-Term Discovery and Study of Other Planetary Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Eugene H. Levy ,
George D. Gatewood  and
Richard J. Terrile
Eugene H. Levy
Affiliation:
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
George D. Gatewood
Affiliation:
Allegheny Observatory, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. , U.S.A.
Richard J. Terrile
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA

Abstract

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The Astrometric Imaging Telescope (AIT) is a space-based 1.5 to 2 meter diameter telescope designed to discover and study planetary systems around other stars. The measurement objectives and instrument design aim at a definitive search for other planetary systems. The science program includes two planetary-system investigations, and the telescope carries two separate instruments: an astrometric instrument to measure the reflex motions of stars caused by the motions of unseen planets and an imaging coronagraph to directly image planets and other circumstellar matter.

Type
II. Future Missions
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 123: Observatories in Earth Orbit and Beyond , 1990 , pp. 287
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990