The Future of Exoplanet Direct Detection

John Monnier , Gioia Rau , Ellyn K. Baines , Joel Sanchez-Bermudez , Martin Elvis , Sam Ragland , Rachel Akeson , Gerard van Belle , Ryan Norris , Kathryn Gordon , Denis Defrère , Stephen Ridgway , Jean-Baptiste Le Bouquin , Narsireddy Anugu , Nicholas Scott , Stephen Kane , Noel Richardson , Zsolt Regaly , Zhaohuan Zhu , Andrea Chiavassa , Gautam Vasisht , Keivan G. Stassun , Chuanfei Dong , Olivier Absil , Sylvestre Lacour , Gerd Weigelt , Douglas Gies , Fred C. Adams , Nuria Calvet , Sascha P. Quanz , Catherine Espaillat , Tyler Gardner , Alexandra Greenbaum , Rafael Millan-Gabet , Chris Packham , Mario Gai , Quentin Kral , Jean-Philippe Berger , Hendrik Linz , Lucia Klarmann , Jaehan Bae , Rebeca Lopez Garcia , Gallenne Alexandre , Fabien Baron , Lee Hartmann , Makoto Kishimoto , Melissa Mcclure , Johan Olofsson , Chris Haniff , Michael Line , Romain G. Petrov (1) , Michael Smith , Christian Hummel , Theo ten Brummelaar , Matthew de Furio , Stephen Rinehart , David Leisawitz , William Danchi , Daniel Huber , Edward Wishnow , Denis Mourard (1) , Benjamin Pope , Michael Ireland , Stefan Kraus , Benjamin Setterholm , Russel White

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Diffraction fundamentally limits our ability to image and characterize exoplanets. Interferometry offers some advantages in exoplanet detection and characterization and we explore in this white paper some of the potential scientific breakthroughs possible.

Domaines: Planétologie et astrophysique de la terre [astro-ph.EP]; Instrumentation et méthodes pour l'astrophysique [astro-ph.IM]

John Monnier, Gioia Rau, Ellyn K. Baines, Joel Sanchez-Bermudez, Martin Elvis, et al.. The Future of Exoplanet Direct Detection. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 2019. ⟨hal-03058932⟩