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arxiv: 1801.00822 · v2 · pith:QLGG75I7new · submitted 2018-01-02 · 🌌 astro-ph.IM

Wide Aperture Exoplanet Telescope: a low-cost flat configuration for a 100+ meter ground based telescope

Benjamin Monreal , Christian Rodriguez , Ama Carney , Rob Halliday , Mingyuan Wang This is my paper
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The Wide Aperture Exoplanet Telescope (WAET) is a ground-based optical telescope layout in which one dimension of a filled aperture can be made very, very large (beyond 100 m) at low cost and complexity. With an unusual beam path but an otherwise-conventional optics, we obtain a fully-steerable telescope on a low-rise mount with a fixed gravity vector on key components. Numerous design considerations and scaling laws suggest that WAET can be far less expensive than other giant segmented mirror telescopes.

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  1. WAET: low-cost ground based telescopes for accelerated exoplanet direct imaging

    astro-ph.IM 2019-07 unverdicted novelty 4.0

    Proposes WAET, a ground-based telescope with highly asymmetric aperture for low-cost direct exoplanet imaging, with a 100x2 hWAET version suggested at $150M.