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arxiv 1803.08564 v2 pith:RFLBV5HH submitted 2018-03-22 astro-ph.EP

The WFIRST Exoplanet Microlensing Survey

David P. Bennett , Rachel Akeson , Jay Anderson , Lee Armus , Etienne Bachelet , Vanessa Bailey , Thomas Barclay , Richard Barry
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Jean-Phillipe Beaulieu Andrea Belini Dominic J. Benford Aparna Bhattacharya Padi Boyd Valerio Bozza Sebastiano Calchi Novati Kenneth Carpenter Arnaud Cassan David Ciardi Andrew Cole Knicole Colon Christian Coutures Martin Dominik Pascal Fouque Kevin Grady Tyler Groff Calen B. Henderson Keith Horne Christopher Gelino Dawn Gelino Jason Kalirai Stephen Kane N. Jeremy Kasdin Jeffrey Kruk Seppo Laine Michiel Lambrechts Luigi Mancini Avi Mandell Sangeeta Malhotra Shude Mao Michael McElwain Bertrand Mennesson Tiffany Meshkat Leonidas Moustakas Jose A. Munoz David Nataf Roberta Paladini Ilaria Pascucci Matthew Penny Radek Poleski Elisa Quintana Clement Ranc Nicholas Rattenbury James Rhodes Jason D. Rhodes Maxime Rizzo Aki Roberge Leslie Rogers Kailash C. Sahu Joshua Schlieder Sara Seager Yossi Shvartzvald Remi Soummer David Spergel Keivan G. Stassun Rachel Street Takahiro Sumi Daisuke Suzuki John Trauger Roeland van der Marel Benjamin F. Williams Edward J. Wollack Jennifer Yee Atsunori Yonehara Neil Zimmerman
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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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