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K.", "clpid": "Wallace-J-K" }, { "family_name": "Whipple", "given_name": "A.", "clpid": "Whipple-A" }, { "family_name": "Wollack", "given_name": "E.", "orcid": "0000-0002-7567-4451", "clpid": "Wollack-E-J" }, { "family_name": "Zhao", "given_name": "F.", "clpid": "Zhao-F" }, { "literal": "WFIRST Study Office" }, { "literal": "Science Definition Team" } ], "abstract": "This report describes the 2014 study by the Science Definition Team (SDT) of the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission. It is a space observatory that will address the most compelling scientific problems in dark energy, exoplanets and general astrophysics using a 2.4-m telescope with a wide-field infrared instrument and an optical coronagraph. The Astro2010 Decadal Survey recommended a Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope as its top priority for a new large space mission. As conceived by the decadal survey,\nWFIRST would carry out a dark energy science program, a microlensing program to\ndetermine the demographics of exoplanets, and a general observing program\nutilizing its ultra wide field. In October 2012, NASA chartered a Science\nDefinition Team (SDT) to produce, in collaboration with the WFIRST Study Office\nat GSFC and the Program Office at JPL, a Design Reference Mission (DRM) for an\nimplementation of WFIRST using one of the 2.4-m, Hubble-quality telescope\nassemblies recently made available to NASA. This DRM builds on the work of the\nearlier WFIRST SDT, reported by Green et al. (2012) and the previous WFIRST-2.4\nDRM, reported by Spergel et. (2013). The 2.4-m primary mirror enables a mission\nwith greater sensitivity and higher angular resolution than the 1.3-m and 1.1-m\ndesigns considered previously, increasing both the science return of the\nprimary surveys and the capabilities of WFIRST as a Guest Observer facility.\nThe addition of an on-axis coronagraphic instrument to the baseline design\nenables imaging and spectroscopic studies of planets around nearby stars.", "doi": "10.48550/arXiv.1503.03757", "publisher": "arXiv", "publication_date": "2015-03-12" } ]