Seeing another Earth: Detecting and Characterizing Rocky Planets with Extremely Large Telescopes

Simple item page
dc.creatorHinz, Philip M.
dc.creatorKenyon, Scott
dc.creatorMeyer, Michael R.
dc.creatorBoss, Alan
dc.creatorAngel, Roger
dc.date2009-02-23
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:45:35Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T12:45:35Z
dc.descriptionThe detection of lower mass planets now being reported via radial velocity and microlensing surveys suggests that they may be ubiquitous. If missions such as Kepler are able to confirm this, the detection and study of rocky planets via direct imaging with ground-based telescopes of apertures > 20 m is feasible in the thermal infrared. We discuss two cases for detecting rocky planets, the first via detection of molten Earths formed though an Earth-Moon like impact event, and the second via detection of planets around very nearby stars. These observations have the potential to give us a first look at a rocky planet similar to the Earth.
dc.descriptionWhite paper submitted to the Astro2010 Decadal Survey PSF panel
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0902.3852
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0902.3852
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/221129
dc.subjectEarth and Planetary Astrophysics
dc.titleSeeing another Earth: Detecting and Characterizing Rocky Planets with Extremely Large Telescopes
dc.typetext

Files

Collections

arXiv