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AFTA Instruments<br />

Wide-­‐Field Instrument<br />

-­‐ Imaging & spectroscopy over 1000s sq deg.<br />

-­‐ Monitoring <strong>of</strong> SN and microlensing fields<br />

-­‐ 0.7 – 2.0 micron bandpass<br />

-­‐ 0.28 sq deg FoV (100x JWST FoV)<br />

-­‐ 18 H4RG detectors (288 Mpixels)<br />

-­‐ 4 filter imaging, grism + IFU spectroscopy<br />

Coronagraph (study op3on)<br />

-­‐ Imaging <strong>of</strong> ice & gas giant exoplanets<br />

-­‐ Imaging <strong>of</strong> debris disks<br />

-­‐ 400 – 1000 nm bandpass<br />

-­‐ 10 -­‐9 contrast<br />

-­‐ 100 milliarcsec inner working angle at 400 nm<br />

Requires focused tech. development ASAP for 2021 launch

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