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25 April 2024

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The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope: 100 Hubbles for the 2020s
Rachel Akeson ; Lee Armus ; Etienne Bachelet ; Vanessa Bailey ; Lisa Bartusek ; Andrea Bellini ; Dominic Benford ; David Bennett ; Aparna Bhattacharya ; Ralph Bohlin ; Martha Boyer ; Valerio Bozza ; Geoffrey Bryden ; Sebastiano Calchi Novati ; Kenneth Carpenter ; Stefano Casertano ; Ami Choi ; David Content ; Pratika Dayal ; Alan Dressler ; Olivier Doré ; S. Michael Fall ; Xiaohui Fan ; Xiao Fang ; Alexei Filippenko ; Steven Finkelstein ; Ryan Foley ; Steven Furlanetto ; Jason Kalirai ; B. Scott Gaudi ; Karoline Gilbert ; Julien Girard ; Kevin Grady ; Jenny Greene ; Puragra Guhathakurta ; Chen Heinrich ; Shoubaneh Hemmati ; David Hendel ; Calen Henderson ; Thomas Henning ; Christopher Hirata ; Shirley Ho ; Eric Huff ; Anne Hutter ; Rolf Jansen ; Saurabh Jha ; Samson Johnson ; David Jones ; Jeremy Kasdin ; Patrick Kelly ; Robert Kirshner ; Anton Koekemoer ; Jeffrey Kruk ; Nikole Lewis ; Bruce Macintosh ; Piero Madau ; Sangeeta Malhotra ; Kaisey Mandel ; Elena Massara ; Daniel Masters ; Julie McEnery ; Kristen McQuinn ; Peter Melchior ; Mark Melton ; Bertrand Mennesson ; Molly Peeples ; Matthew Penny ; Saul Perlmutter ; Alice Pisani ; Andrés Plazas ; Radek Poleski ; Marc Postman ; Clément Ranc ; Bernard Rauscher ; Armin Rest ; Aki Roberge ; Brant Robertson ; Steven Rodney ; James Rhoads ; Jason Rhodes ; Russell Ryan Jr. ; Kailash Sahu ; David Sand ; Dan Scolnic ; Anil Seth ; Yossi Shvartzvald ; Karelle Siellez ; Arfon Smith ; David Spergel ; Keivan Stassun ; Rachel Street ; Louis-Gregory Strolger ; Alexander Szalay ; John Trauger ; M. A. Troxel ; Margaret Turnbull ; Roeland van der Marel ; Anja von der Linden ; Yun Wang ; David Weinberg ; Benjamin Williams ; Rogier Windhorst ; Edward Wollack ; Hao-Yi Wu ; Jennifer Yee ; Neil Zimmerman ;
Date:	14 Feb 2019
Abstract:	The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is a 2.4m space telescope with a 0.281 deg^2 field of view for near-IR imaging and slitless spectroscopy and a coronagraph designed for > 10^8 starlight suppresion. As background information for Astro2020 white papers, this article summarizes the current design and anticipated performance of WFIRST. While WFIRST does not have the UV imaging/spectroscopic capabilities of the Hubble Space Telescope, for wide field near-IR surveys WFIRST is hundreds of times more efficient. Some of the most ambitious multi-cycle HST Treasury programs could be executed as routine General Observer (GO) programs on WFIRST. The large area and time-domain surveys planned for the cosmology and exoplanet microlensing programs will produce extraordinarily rich data sets that enable an enormous range of Archival Research (AR) investigations. Requirements for the coronagraph are defined based on its status as a technology demonstration, but its expected performance will enable unprecedented observations of nearby giant exoplanets and circumstellar disks. WFIRST is currently in the Preliminary Design and Technology Completion phase (Phase B), on schedule for launch in 2025, with several of its critical components already in production.
Source:	arXiv, 1902.5569
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