FINESSE, a NASA MIDEX mission in Step 2, would conduct a large, uniform survey of exoplanet atmospheres and create a statistically significant sample for comparative planetology. FINESSE's technical capabilities, driven by a scientific program to study planetary formation and climate mechanisms, enable additional exoplanet science presented here.
@article{arxiv.1803.07163,
title = {Additional Exoplanet Science Enabled by FINESSE},
author = {Robert T. Zellem and Jonathan J. Fortney and Mark R. Swain and Geoffrey Bryden and John W. Chapman and Nicolas B. Cowan and Tiffany Kataria and Laura Kreidberg and Michael R. Line and Julianne I. Moses and Vivien Parmentier and Gael M. Roudier and Kevin B. Stevenson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.07163},
year = {2018}
}
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White paper submitted to The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Exoplanet Science Strategy. 6 pages including title page, 4 figures, 1 table