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TPF IN DEPTH


Key Documents
   TPF-C Workshop
      Documents
      September 2006
   TPF-C STDT Report
      June 2006
      (PDF, 9.3 MB)
   TPF-C Technology Plan
      March 2005
      (PDF, 6.2 MB)
   TPF-I Technology Plan
      June 2005
      (PDF, 4.0 MB)
Navigator Science Plan
      2006
   TPF Astrophysics
      (PDF, 2.1 MB)
Biosignatures and
      Planetary
      Properties
(PDF)
 
TPF Newsletter
 
Research Opportunities
TPF Foundation Science
   + 2004 Selections
   + 2003 Selections
TPF-C Instrument
      Concept Studies
 
TPF Archive
 
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      Charter
 
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Stellar Archive &
      Retrieval System
      (StARS)
TPF Target List
      Database
TPF Synergy Report
TPF-C Flight Baseline
      Report
Decadal Report
Bibliography of
      coronagraphy papers
Bibliography of nulling
      interferometry papers
 
TPF/Darwin Workshop Series
 
Michelson Science Center
2007 Michelson
      Graduate/Postdoc
      Fellows Applications
Fellowships
 
Related Sites
Darwin Project at ESA
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TPF-C PRE-PROJECT

Project Manager:
Dan Coulter
Project Scientist:
Wesley Traub
Deputy Project Scientist:
Karl Stapelfeldt
Project Engineer:
Richard Key
Systems Manager:
Marie Levine-West
Architect:
Stuart Shaklan

TPF-I PRE-PROJECT

Project Manager:
Dan Coulter
Project Scientist:
Charles Beichman
Deputy Project Scientist:
Stephen Unwin
Project Engineer:
Richard Key
Systems Manager:
Peter Lawson
Architect:
Oliver Lay

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    TPF-C SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEFINITION TEAM

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Name
Institution
James Kasting (Chair)
Penn State University
Vikki Meadows
IPAC, NAI
Marc Kuchner
Princeton University
Ben Oppenheimer
AMNH
Chris Burrows
Independent consultant
Roger Angel
University of Arizona
Mark Clampin
Goddard Space Flight Center
John Trauger
JPL
Sara Seager
Carnegie Institute of Washington
Wesley Traub
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Bob Brown
Space Telescope Science Institute
Heidi Hammel
Space Science Institute
Doug Lin
UC Santa Cruz
Mike Brown
CalTech
Mark Marley
NASA/Ames
Garth Illingworth
UCO Lick
Alan Dressler
Carnegie Institute of Washington
Harry Ferguson
Space Telescope Science Institute
Charley Noecker
Ball Aerospace
Scott Horner
Lockheed-Martin
Jeremy Kasdin
Princeton University
Sally Heap (ex officio)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Karl Stapelfeldt (ex officio)
JPL

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  TPF-I SCIENCE WORKING GROUP

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Name
Institution
Kenneth Johnston (Chair)
USNO
David Crisp
JPL
Jan M. (Mike) Hollis
GSFC
Paul Falkowski
Rutgers University
William Danchi
GSFC
Gene Serabyn
JPL
John Monnier
University of Michigan
Ben Lane
MIT
Bertrand Mennesson
JPL
Nick Woolf
University of Arizona
Alice Quillen
University of Rochester
Phil Hinz
University of Arizona
Rachel Akeson
MSC/CalTech
Gregory Laughlin
UCO Lick
John Bally
University of Colorado
David Wilner
CfA
Charley Noecker
Ball Aerospace
David Hyland
Texas A&M University
Charles Beichman (ex officio)
MSC/JPL
Malcolm Fridlund
ESA/ESTEC
Rene Liseau
Stockholm Observatory, Sweden
Huub Röttgering
Leiden University, Netherlands

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TPF TECHNOLOGY REVIEW PANEL

Name
Institution
Area of Expertise
Dick Dyer
Schafer Corporation
Large Telescopes
Pete Mason
Caltech
Space Cryogenics
Mike Krim
Perkin-Elmer, retired
Space Observatory System Engineering
Bruce MacIntosh
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Precision Wavefront Sensing and Control
Rich Capps
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Programmatics
Ron Allen
STScI
Instrument System Engineering
Dave Mozurkewich
Seabrook Engineering
Interferometry
Chris Burrows
STScI
Coronagraphs
Jason Speyer
UCLA
Formation Flying
Mark Lake
Composite Technology Development Inc.
Large Structures

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