Monnier, John D.; Kraus, Stefan; Ireland, Michael J.; Baron, Fabien; Bayo, Amelia; Berger, Jean-Philippe; Creech-Eakman, Michelle; Dong, Ruobing; Duchêne, Gaspard; Espaillat, Catherine; Haniff, Chris; Hönig, Sebastian; Isella, Andrea; Juhasz, Attila; Labadie, Lucas; Lacour, Sylvestre; Leifer, Stephanie; Merand, Antoine; Michael, Ernest; Minardi, Stefano; ... (2018). The planet formation imager. Experimental astronomy, 46(3), pp. 517-529. Springer 10.1007/s10686-018-9594-1
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The Planet Formation Imager (PFI, www.planetformationimager.org) is a next-generation infrared interferometer array with the primary goal of imaging the active phases of planet formation in nearby star forming regions. PFI will be sensitive to warm dust emission using mid-infrared capabilities made possible by precise fringe tracking in the near-infrared. An L/M band combiner will be especially sensitive to thermal emission from young exoplanets (and their disks) with a high spectral resolution mode to probe the kinematics of CO and H2O gas. In this paper, we give an overview of the main science goals of PFI, define a baseline PFI architecture that can achieve those goals, point at remaining technical challenges, and suggest activities today that will help make the Planet Formation Imager facility a reality.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Space Research and Planetary Sciences > Theoretical Astrophysics and Planetary Science (TAPS) 08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Space Research and Planetary Sciences 08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute 08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > NCCR PlanetS |
UniBE Contributor: |
Mordasini, Christoph |
Subjects: |
500 Science 500 Science > 520 Astronomy 500 Science > 530 Physics 600 Technology > 620 Engineering |
ISSN: |
0922-6435 |
Publisher: |
Springer |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Janine Jungo |
Date Deposited: |
13 Jun 2019 16:52 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:27 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1007/s10686-018-9594-1 |
ArXiv ID: |
1807.11559v1 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.128773 |
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https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/128773 |
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