The POET mission: a Canadian space telescope for exoplanet astrophysics

Jason F. Rowe; Stanimir Metchev; Kelsey L. Hoffman; Jean-François Lavigne; Yan Montembeault; Joelene Hales; Samantha Lambier; Déreck Lizotte; Paulo Miles-Páez; James Sikora; Genaro Suárez; Nicholas Swidinsky

doi:10.1117/12.2630055

27 August 2022 The POET mission: a Canadian space telescope for exoplanet astrophysics

Jason F. Rowe, Stanimir Metchev, Kelsey L. Hoffman, Jean-François Lavigne, Yan Montembeault, Joelene Hales, Samantha Lambier, Déreck Lizotte, Paulo Miles-Páez, James Sikora, Genaro Suárez, Nicholas Swidinsky

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Proceedings Volume 12180, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave; 121800A (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630055
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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POET is a proposed Canadian Microsatellite mission designed to characterize and discover transiting exoplanets. A 20-cm all-reflective telescope will feed a trio of detectors to obtain simultaneous, high duty-cycle, photometry in the u (300-400 nm), Visible Near-Infrared (VNIR) (400-900 nm) and Short Wave Infrared (SWIR (900- 1700 nm) bands to make precision measurements of exoplanet transits for atmospheric characterization and to detect transiting Earth-sized planets. POET was selected as a high priority for a Microsatellite mission by the Canadian community as part of the CASCA Long Range Plan 2020. Advancement of the payload concept and technology development for the optical telescope assembly (OTA) are currently being carried out through the Space Technology Development Program of the Canadian Space Agency. POET is a collaboration between Bishop’s University, Western University, ABB and SFL-UTIAS.

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Jason F. Rowe, Stanimir Metchev, Kelsey L. Hoffman, Jean-François Lavigne, Yan Montembeault, Joelene Hales, Samantha Lambier, Déreck Lizotte, Paulo Miles-Páez, James Sikora, Genaro Suárez, and Nicholas Swidinsky "The POET mission: a Canadian space telescope for exoplanet astrophysics", Proc. SPIE 12180, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 121800A (27 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630055

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