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Planet formation imager: project update

John D. Monnier, Michael Ireland, Stefan Kraus, Amy Bonsor, Fabien Baron, Jean-Philippe Berger, Tabetha Boyajian, Andrea Chiavassa, David Ciardi, Michelle Creech-Eakman, Willem-Jan de Wit, Ruobing Dong (+70 others)
2018 Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VI  

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The Planet Formation Imager (PFI) is a near-and mid-infrared interferometer project with the driving science goal of imaging directly the key stages of planet formation, including the young proto-planets themselves. Here, we will present an update on the work of the Science Working Group (SWG), including new simulations of dust structures during the assembly phase of planet formation and quantitative detection efficiencies for accreting and non-accreting young exoplanets as a function of mass
more » ... d age. We use these results to motivate two reference PFI designs consisting of a) twelve 3 m telescopes with a maximum baseline of 1.2 km focused on young exoplanet imaging and b) twelve 8 m telescopes optimized for a wider range of young exoplanets and protoplanetary disk imaging out to the 150 K H 2 O ice line. Armed with 4 × 8 m telescopes, the ESO/VLTI can already detect young exoplanets in principle and projects such as MATISSE, Hi-5 and Heimdallr are important PFI pathfinders to make this possible. We also discuss the state of technology development needed to make PFI more affordable, including progress towards new designs for inexpensive, small field-of-view, large aperture telescopes and prospects for Cubesat-based space interferometry.
doi:10.1117/12.2312683 fatcat:atytag7njngohdfdeyuyubf2wu
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John D. Monnier, Michael Ireland, Stefan Kraus, Amy Bonsor, Fabien Baron, Jean-Philippe Berger, Tabetha Boyajian, Andrea Chiavassa, David Ciardi, Michelle Creech-Eakman, Willem-Jan de Wit, Ruobing Dong, Catherine Espaillat, Alexandre Gallenne, Poshak Gandhi, Jean-Francois Gonzalez, Chris Haniff, Sebastian Hoenig, John Ilee, Andrea Isella, Eric Jensen, Attila Juhasz, Stephen Kane, Makoto Kishimoto, Wilhelm Kley, Quentin Kral, Kaitlin Kratter, Lucas Labadie, Sylvestre Lacour, Greg Laughlin, Jean-Baptiste Le Bouquin, Ernest Michael, Farzana Meru, Rafael Millan-Gabet, Florentin Millour, Stefano Minardi, Alessandro Morbidelli, Chris Mordasini, Andreas Morlok, Dave Mozurkewich, Richard Nelson, Rene Oudmaijer, Chris Packham, Claudia Paladini, Olja Panic, Romain Petrov, Benjamin Pope, Joerg-Uwe Pott, Luis Henry Quiroga-Nuñez, Cristina Ramos Almeida, Sean Raymond, Zsolt Regaly, Mark Reynolds, Stephen Ridgway, Stephen Rinehart, Michael Smith, Keivan Stassun, Jean Surdej, Neal Turner, Peter Tuthill, Gerard T. van Belle, Gautum Vasisht, Gerd Weigelt, Edward Wishnow, Sebastian Wolf, Ming Zhao, Zhaohuan Zhu, Matthias Schreiber, Gaspard Duchêne, Amelia Bayo, Johan Olofsson, Theo ten Brummelaar, Konrad Tristram, Markus Wittkowski, John Young, Alexander Wallace, Denis Defrere, Almudena Alonso-Herrero, Sebasti\'an Z\'u\~niga-Fern\'andez, Antoine Mérand, Michelle J. Creech-Eakman, Peter G. Tuthill. "Planet formation imager: project update." Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VI (2018)