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SIM Lite ExoEarth Discovery Zone

SIM Lite will search for Earth-mass planets in the habitable zones around the nearest 60 solar-type stars — a capability unmatched by any existing instrument or instruments currently in development.

This graphic illustrates the sensitivity of different methods for discovering and analyzing exoplanets plotted with mass sensitivity of the technique vs. exoplanet orbital period. Maximum sensitivity limits are presented for Gaia (brown curve) and radial velocity (RV) searches to 1M? are plotted (grey curve). For SIM Lite, the sensitivity for finding a habitable exo-Earth is presented (red and pink curves) for both the easiest and most difficult stars and a median star among its best 60 target stars.

Plotted in the background are planets from Ida and Lin simulations, many of the known planets discovered by RV measurements, and solar system planets from Venus through Neptune. SIM Lite can discover habitable worlds in a large volume of Mass-Period space for F-G-K stars.

Chart detailing SIM Lite's planet-finding capabilities.

The SIM-Radial Velocity Double-Blind Simulation to Detect Earths in Multi-Planet Systems

Summary
Poster 1
Poster 2
White Paper

"Exoplanet Community Report"

Lawson, P. R., Traub, W. A., and Unwin, S. C. See Chapter 2, Astrometry, on p. 13.

"Worlds Beyond: A Strategy for the Detection and Characterization of Exoplanets"

Lunine, J. I., Fischer, D., Hammel, H., Henning, T., Hillenbrand, L., Kasting, J., Laughlin, G., Macintosh, B., Marley, M., Melnick, G., Monet, D., Noecker, C., Peale, S., Quirrenbach, A., Seager, S., Winn, J.

"Measuring the Orbits of Exo-Earths in Multiplanet Systems, the Synergy of Direct Imaging and Astrometry"

Shao, M.

"Astrophysical Noise in Astrometric and RV Search for Exo-Earths"

Shao, M., Catanzarite, J., Law, N.

"Astrometric detection of exo-Earths in the presence of stellar noise"

Catanzarite, J., Law, N., Shao, M.

"The Space Interferometry Mission: Taking the Measure of the Universe"
Final Report of the Space Interferometry Mission Science Working Group, 2000

Petersen, D., Shao, M.

"The Space Interferometry Mission: Taking the Measure of the Universe"
Final Report of the Space Interferometry Science Working Group, 1996

Peterson, D., et al.