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The WFIRST Exoplanet Microlensing Survey

David P. BennettRachel AkesonJay AndersonLee ArmusEtienne BacheletVanessa BaileyThomas BarclayRichard BarryJean-phillipe BeaulieuAndrea BeliniDominic J. BenfordAparna BhattacharyaPadi BoydValerio BozzaSebastiano Calchi NovatiKenneth CarpenterArnaud CassanDavid CiardiAndrew ColeKnicole ColonChristian CouturesMartin DominikPascal FouqueKevin GradyTyler GroffCalen B. HendersonKeith HorneChristopher GelinoDawn GelinoJason KaliraiStephen KaneN. Jeremy KasdinJeffrey KrukSeppo LaineMichiel LambrechtsLuigi ManciniAvi MandellSangeeta MalhotraShude MaoMichael McelwainBertrand MennessonTiffany MeshkatLeonidas MoustakasJose A. MunozDavid NatafRoberta PaladiniIlaria PascucciMatthew PennyRadek PoleskiElisa QuintanaClement RancNicholas RattenburyJames RhodesJason D. RhodesMaxime RizzoAki RobergeLeslie RogersKailash C. SahuJoshua SchliederSara SeagerYossi ShvartzvaldRemi SoummerDavid SpergelKeivan G. StassunRachel StreetTakahiro SumiDaisuke SuzukiJohn TraugerRoeland MarelBenjamin F. WilliamsEdward J. WollackJennifer YeeAtsunori YoneharaNeil Zimmerman

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Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)FOS: Physical sciencesAstrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

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The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) was the top ranked large space mission in the 2010 New Worlds, New Horizons decadal survey, and it was formed by merging the science programs of 3 different mission concepts, including the Microlensing Planet Finder (MPF) concept (Bennett \etal\ 2010). The WFIRST science program (Spergel \etal\ 2015) consists of a general observer program, a wavefront controlled technology program, and two targeted science programs: a program to study dark energy, and a statistical census of exoplanets with a microlensing survey, which uses nearly one quarter of WFIRST's observing time in the current design reference mission. The New Worlds, New Horizons (decadal survey) midterm assessment summarizes the science case for the WFIRST exoplanet microlensing survey with this statement: "WFIRST's microlensing census of planets beyond 1 AU will perfectly complement Kepler's census of compact systems, and WFIRST will also be able to detect free-floating planets unbound from their parent stars\rlap."

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2018-03-22
https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1803.08564