Reports on Extrasolar Planets and Exobiology
From the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia
Maintained by © 2010 Jean Schneider
Observatoire de Paris, jean.schneider@obspm.fr
2010- Exoplanets: the search for planets beyond our solar system
Institute of Physics Report (UK)
February 2010
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2009- New Discoveries in Planetary Systems and Star Formation through Advances in Laboratory Astrophysics
White Paper submitted to the US Decadal Survey
paper - MARVELS: Revealing the Formation and Dynamical Evolution of Giant Planet Systems
White Paper submitted to the US Decadal Survey
paper - Plasma Astrophysics Problems in Star and Planet Formation
White Paper submitted to the US Decadal Survey
paper - A Census of Exoplanets in Orbits Beyond 0.5 AU via Space-based Microlensing
White Paper submitted to the US Decadal Survey.
paper - Investigations of the Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems
White Paper submitted to the US Decadal Survey
paper - Wide Field Imager in Space for Dark Energy and Planets
White Paper submitted to the US Decadal Survey
paper - How and When do Planets Form? The Inner Regions of Planet Forming Disks at High Spatial and Spectral Resolution
White Paper submitted to the US Decadal Survey
paper - New Worlds: Evaluating terrestrial planets as astrophysical objects
White Paper submitted to the US Decadal Survey
paper - The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: The Search for and Characterization of Young Planets
White Paper submitted to the US Decadal Survey
paper - The Formation and Architecture of Young Planetary Systems
White Paper submitted to the US Decadal Survey
paper - No Planet Left Behind: Investigating Planetary Diversity and Architecture with SIM Lite
White Paper submitted to the US Decadal Survey
paper - Seeing another Earth: Detecting and Characterizing Rocky Planets with Extremely Large Telescopes
White Paper submitted to the US Decadal Survey
paper - O/IR Polarimetry for the 2010 Decade (PSF): Science at the Edge, Sharp Tools for All
White paper submitted to the US Decadal Survey
paper - Discovering and Characterizing the Planetary Systems of Nearby Stars: The scientific need for medium aperture space coronagraph observations
White Paper submitted to the US Decadal Survey
paper - X-ray Studies of Planetary Systems: An Astro2010 Decadal Survey White Paper
White Paper submitted to the US Decadal Survey
paper - List of White Papers submitted to the US Decadal Survey Astro2010
Full List - The Demographics of Extrasolar Planets Beyond the Snow Line with Ground-based Microlensing Surveys
White Paper submitted to the US Decadal Survey
paper - Magnetospheric Emission from Extrasolar Planets
White Paper submitted to the US Decadal Survey
paper - JPL "Exoplanet Community Report"
Full text - Science-Operational Metrics and Issues for the "Are We Alone?" Movement
White paper submitted to the US Decadal Survey Astro2010
paper - Astrometric Detection of Earthlike Planets
White Paper submitted to the US Decadal Survay
paper - Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST): A Technology Roadmap for the Next Decade
White Paper submitted to the US Decadal Survay
paper - Planetary system, star formation, and black hole science with non-redundant masking on space telescopes
White Paper submitted to the US Decadal Survey
paper - From Protostars to Planetary Systems : FUV Spectroscopy of YSOs, Protoplanetary Disks, and Extrasolar Giant Planets
White Paper submitted to the US Decadal Survey
paper - Exploring Exoplanets from Near Space - Exoplanet Detection and Characterization from Balloons
White Paper submitted to the US Decadal Survey
paper - New Technologies for Exploring New Worlds
White Paper submitted to the US Decadal Survey
paper - Overview of Technologies for Direct Optical Imaging of Exoplanets
White Paper submitted to the US Decadal Survey
paper - Overview of Technology Development for the Phase-Induced Amplitude Apodization (PIAA) Coronagraph
White Paper submitted to the US Decadal Survey
paper - Technology Development for Future Sparse Aperture Telescopes and Interferometers in Space
White Paper submitted to the US Decadal Survey
paper - Technology Development Toward Imaging and Spectroscopy of Exo-planets via Visible Nulling Coronagraphic Techniques
White Paper submitted to the US Decadal Survey
paper - Technology for a Mid-IR Flagship Mission to Characterize Earth-like Exoplanets
White Paper submitted to the US Decadal Survey
paper - THESIS - the Terrestrial and Habitable-zone Exoplanet Spectroscopy Infrared Spacecraft
White Paper submitted to the US Decadal Survey
paper - Pathway Toward a Mid-Infrared Interferometer for the Direct Characterization of Exoplanets
White Paper submitted to the US Decadal Survey Astro2010 (Planetary Systems and Star Formation Panel)
paper - Comparison of optical observational capabilities
for the coming decades: ground versus space
White Paper submitted to the US Decadal Survey
paper - Exoplanet Characterization and the Search for Life
White paper submitted to the US Astro2010 Decadal Review
paper - Terrestrial Planet Finder Coronagraph (TPF-C) Flight Baseline Concept
White paper submitted to theUS Decadal Survey Astro2010
paper - Planetary Formation and Evolution Revealed with a Saturn Entry Probe: The Importance of Noble Gases
White Paper submitted to the US Decadal Surey Astro2010
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2008- ExoPTF Final Report
Full text - Towards a Small Prototype Planet Finding Interferometer: The next step in planet finding and characterization in the infrared
white paper for Exoplanet Task Force
paper - The ASTRONET
Infrastructure Roadmap
5 May 2005
Full Text - "Exoplanet Community Report" (JPL)
Second draft - Towards A Census of Earth-mass Exo-planets with Gravitational Microlensing
White Paper submission to the ESA Exo-Planet Roadmap Advisory Team
preprint - Inferring statistics of planet populations by means of automated microlensing searches
White paper submitted to ESA's Exo-Planet Roadmap Advisory Team
preprint - Using SPICA Space Telescope to characterize Exoplanets
White Paper for ESA's Exo-Planet Roadmap Advisory Team
Full Text - ESA White paper: Atmospheric modeling: Setting Biomarkers in context
White Paper submitted to ESA for Exo-Planet Roadmap
report - Diversity among other worlds: characterization of exoplanets by direct
detection
White Paper submitted to the ESA Exoplanet Roadmap Advisory Team
paper
2007- Terrestrial Planet Finder Interferometer Science
Working Group Report
JPL Publication 07-1
Report - Detecting and Characterizing Planetary Systems with Transit Timing
White paper submitted to the NASA/NSF Exoplanet Task Force
paper - An Extrasolar Planet Census with a Space-based Microlensing Survey
White Paper Submitted to the NASA/NSF ExoPlanet Task Force
paper - Terrestrial Planet Finder Interferometer (TPF-I)
Whitepaper for the NASA/NSF Exoplanet Task Force
paper - Ground-based Microlensing Surveys
White paper submitted to the NASA/NSF Exoplanet Task Force
paper - Terrestrial and Habitable Planet Formation in Binary and Multi-star Systems
White Paper Submitted to the NASA/NSF ExoPlanet Task Force
paper - SIM PlanetQuest: The Most Promising Near-Term Technique to Detect, Find Masses, and Determine Three-Dimensional Orbits of Nearby Habitable Planets
White paper submitted to the NASA/NSF Exoplanet Task Force
paper - Ground-Based Direct Detection of Exoplanets with the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI)
White paper submitted to the NASA/NSF ExoPlanet Task Force
paper - Role of Dynamical Research in the Detection and Characterization of Exoplanets
White Paper Submitted to the ExoPlanet Task Force
paper - The Dynamics-Based Approach to Studying Terrestrial Exoplanets
White Paper submitted to the Exoplanet Task Force (AAAC)
paper - ExoPTF Science Uniquely Enabled by Far-IR Interferometry: Probing the Formation of Planetary Systems, and Finding and Characterizing Exoplanets
Report to the Exoplanet Task Force (AAAC),
report - Dynamics of Exozodiacal Clouds
ExoPlanet Task Force White Paper
report - The Limits of Organic Life in Planetary Systems
Report by the "Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life", US National Research Council
Full Text - FIRI - a Far-Infrared Interferometer
Proposal submitted to the European Space Agency as part of "Cosmic Vision 2015-2025
Full Text - First Steps in Direct Imaging of Planetary Systems Like our Own: The Science Potential of 2-m Class Optical Space Telescopes
White paper submitted to the AAAC Exoplanet Task Force,
Full Text - DARWIN mission proposal to ESA
DARWIN mission proposal to ESA for its "Cosmic Vision" 2015-2025 program
Full Text - ASTRONET Science Vision
Full Text - Externally Dispersed Interferometry for Precision Radial Velocimetry
Submitted to AAAC Exoplanet Task Force
report - Radio Astrometric Detection and Characterization of Extra-Solar Planets
A White Paper Submitted to the NSF ExoPlanet Task Force
Report - NASA/NSF ExoPlanet Task Force Interim Report
Report - Navigator Program Science Overview
Exoplanet Task Force White Paper
paper - Technology for Astrometric Detection of Nearby One-Earth Mass Habitable-Zone Planets from Space
Exoplanet Task Force White Paper
paper - A Single-Mode Nulling Coronagraph for Ground Based Imaging of Young Extrasolar-Planets
Exoplanet Task Force White Paper
paper - High-Contrast, Narrow-Field Imaging with a Fiber-Coupled Multi-Aperture Telescope
Exoplanet Task Force White Paper
paper - Terrestrial Planet Finder Coronagraph (TPF-C)
Exoplanet Task Force White Paper
paper - The Need for a Robust Planet Finding Community: Research Support and Community Archives
Exoplanet Task Force White Paper
paper - THESIS - The Transiting Habitable-zone Exoplanet Spectroscopy Infrared Spacecraft
Exoplanet Task Force White Paper
paper
2006- Earth-Like Exoplanets: The Science of NASA's
Navigator Program
JPL Publication 06-5
Report
2005- NASA Planet Finding Roadmap
May 2005
Full Text - Report of the March 29-30 2005 Meeting of the NASA Strategic Roadmap
on the Search for Earth-Like Planets.
May 2005
Full Text - Report of the ESA-ESO working group on Extra-Solar Planets
March 2005
Full Text - Report of the February 15-16 2005 Meeting of the NASA Strategic Roadmap on the Search for Earth-Like Planets.
May 2005
Full Text - Coronographic Methods for the Detection of Terrestrial Planets
Conclusions from a workshop held February 02-06, 2004 at Leiden University; edited by A. Quirrenbach; based on contributions from the workshop participants.
Full Text - General Astrophysics and Comparative Planetology with the Terrestrial Planet Finder Missions
Edited by M. Kuchner
JPL Publication 05-01
Full Text - Universe Exploration and the Search for Earth-Like Planets
Chap 4 of "Review of Goals and Plans for NASA's Space and Earth Sciences " 2005
Full text - Technology Plan for the Terrestrial Planet Finder
Interferometer
Full text - The Science Case for the European Extremely Large Telescope: The next step in mankind's quest for the Universe
Hook, I. M. (Ed.)
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2004- Precursor Science for the Terrestrial Planet Finder
Edited by P.R. Lawson, S.C. Unwin, and C.A. Beichman
JPL Pub 04-014
October 5, 2004
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2002- Origins Science Roadmap
(NASA)
November 2002
Full Text - Life in the Universe: An Examination of United States and International Programs in Astrobiology
A National Research Council Report
August 2002
Full Text - TPF architecture studies (2000-2002) reports
4-jul-2002
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2001- Biosignatures and Planetary Properties to be Investigated by the TPF Mission
JPL Publication 01-008
5-Dec-2001
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2000- Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium (2000)
US National Academy of Science
19-May-2000
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1999- TPF: Overview and Response to the UVOIR Panel
05-April-1999
Full Text - SIM : An Input to the UVOIR Panel of the AASC
01-April-1999
Full Text - NGST : Prepared for the UVOIR Panel of the AASC
29-March-1999
Full Text - NASA's Astrobiology Roadmap
January 1999
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1998- Failed Stars and Super Planets
A Report Based on the January 1998 Workshop on Substellar-Mass Objects
Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications National Research Council (USA)
1998
Full Text - A Spectrograph for the ESO 3.6m for Very High RV Precision
ESO internal report (Martin Kürster) (Summer 1998) - Failed Stars and Super Planets
A Report Based on the January 1998 Workshop on Substellar-Mass Objects
National Research Council
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1997- The Space Science Enterprise Strategic Plan: Origins, Evolution, and
Destiny of the Cosmos and Life
NASA (November 1997) - Final Report of the ESO Working Group on the Detection of Extrasolar
Planets
SPG-VLTI-97/002 (10 September 1997) - Search for Origins Roadmap
NASA (April 1997)
Full Text - Backman Report on Extrasolar Zodiacal Light
February 1997; updated March 1998
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1996- Exploration of Neighboring Planetary Systems (ExNPS)
NASA (August 1996)
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1990- Strategy for the Detection and Study of Other Planetary Systems and Extrasolar Planetary Materials: 1990-2000
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1980