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Paths to robust exoplanet science yield margin for the Habitable Worlds Observatory

Bryson, Steve; Tuchow, Noah W.; Stark, Christopher C. +11 more

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) will seek to detect and characterize potentially Earth-like planets around other stars. To ensure that the mission achieves the Astro2020 Decadal's recommended goal of 25 exoEarth candidates (EECs), we must take into account the probabilistic nature of exoplanet detections and provide a "science margin" to bu…

Telescope control software and proto-model siderostat for the SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper

Kollmeier, Juna A.; Drory, Niv; Froning, Cynthia S. +19 more

The fifth Sloan Digital Sky Survey Local Volume Mapper (LVM) is a wide-field integral field unit survey that uses an array of four 160 mm fixed telescopes with siderostats to minimize the number of moving parts. An individual telescope observes the science or calibration field independently and is synchronized with the science exposure. We develop…