Dr. Benjamin V. Rackham Profile

Dr. Benjamin V. Rackham

at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Publications (6)

SPIE Journal Paper | 27 December 2023

Schedule optimization for transiting exoplanet observations with National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Pandora SmallSat mission

Trevor Foote, Thomas Barclay, Christina L. Hedges, Nikole Lewis, Elisa Quintana, Benjamin Rackham, Knicole Colón, David Ciardi

JATIS, Vol. 9, Issue 04, 047001, (December 2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.JATIS.9.4.047001

KEYWORDS: Exoplanets, Planets, Stars, Windows, Visibility, Observatories, Atmospheres, Sun, Contamination, Spectroscopy

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Proceedings Article | 3 October 2022 Presentation + Paper

Nautilus Space Observatory: a very large aperture space telescope constellation enabled by scalable optical manufacturing technologies

Dániel Apai, Tom Milster, Daewook Kim, Youngsik Kim, Glenn Schneider, Benjamin Rackham, Jonathan Arenberg, Heejoo Choi, Marcos Esparza, Zichan Wang, Yingying Zhang, Alex Bixel

Proceedings Volume 12221, 122210C (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2633184

KEYWORDS: Diffractive optical elements, Astrobiology, Telescopes, Space observatories, Planets, Space telescopes, James Webb Space Telescope, Space operations, Stars, Satellites, Optical fabrication

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Proceedings Article | 27 August 2022 Poster + Paper

Pandora SmallSat data simulation and target selection

Trevor Foote, Elisa Quintana, Jessie Dotson, Knicole Colón, Thomas Barclay, Pete Supsinskas, Jordan Karburn, Dániel Apai, Christina Hedges, Benjamin Rackham, Jason Rowe, Jessie Christiansen, Thomas Greene, James Mason, Gregory Mosby, Néstor Espinoza, Emily Gilbert, Kelsey Hoffman, Veselin Kostov, Nikole Lewis, Brett Morris, Susan Mullally, Elisabeth Newton, Joshua Schlieder, Allison Youngblood, Megan Mansfield, Kevin Stevenson, Steven Villanueva

Proceedings Volume 12180, 121802X (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630131

KEYWORDS: James Webb Space Telescope, Near infrared, Atmospheric modeling, Point spread functions, Stars, Planets, Exoplanets, Atmospheric sciences, Sensors, Spectroscopy, Modeling and simulation

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Proceedings Article | 27 August 2022 Presentation + Paper

The Pandora SmallSat: a mission to spectroscopically study exoplanet atmospheres

Kelsey Hoffman, Elisa Quintana, Jessie Dotson, Knicole Colón, Thomas Barclay, Pete Supsinskas, Jordan Karburn, Dániel Apai, Christina Hedges, Benjamin Rackham, Jason Rowe, Jessie Christiansen, Thomas Greene, James Mason, Gregory Mosby, Néstor Espinoza, Emily Gilbert, Veselin Kostov, Nikole Lewis, Brett Morris, Susan Mullally, Elisabeth Newton, Joshua Schlieder, Allison Youngblood, Trevor Foote, Megan Mansfield, Kevin Stevenson, Steven Villanueva, Joshua Pepper

Proceedings Volume 12180, 121800C (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629546

KEYWORDS: Exoplanets, Planets, Stars, Visible radiation, Spectroscopy, Near infrared, Telescopes, Contamination, Photometry, Atmospheric sensing

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Presentation + Paper

Development of the SPECULOOS exoplanet search project

D. Sebastian, P. P. Pedersen, C. Murray, E. Ducrot, L. Garcia, A. Burdanov, F. Pozuelos, L. Delrez, R. Wells, G. Dransfield, M. Gillon, B.-O. Demory, D. Queloz, A. H. M. Triaud, J. De Witt, E. Jehin, Y. Gómez Maqueo Chew, M. Günther, P. Niraula, B. Rackham, N. Schanche, S. Sohy, S. Thompson

Proceedings Volume 11445, 1144521 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2563563

KEYWORDS: Exoplanets, Telescopes, Stars, Planets, James Webb Space Telescope, Observatories, Robotics, Prototyping

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Proceedings Article | 9 September 2019 Presentation + Paper

Nautilus Observatory: a space telescope array based on very large aperture ultralight diffractive optical elements

Dániel Apai, Tom Milster, Dae Wook Kim, Alex Bixel, Glenn Schneider, Benjamin Rackham, Rongguang Liang, Jonathan Arenberg

Proceedings Volume 11116, 1111608 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2529428

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Lenses, Space telescopes, Planets, Observatories, Astrophysics, Optical fabrication, Exoplanets, Space observatories, Earth's atmosphere

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