Links

Nearby Stars List

http://nexsci.caltech.edu/missions/EXEP/EXEPstarlist.html

Future efforts to directly image exoplanets will concentrate on the nearest and brightest stars. A catalog listing the properties of such stars is now available at NExSCI for use in planning such missions (e.g. WFIRST).

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NASA Astrophysics Program Websites

Exoplanet Exploration Program (ExEP)

• Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group (ExoPAG) - https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/exep/exopag/overview/
  The ExoPAG is responsible for soliciting and coordinating community input into the development and execution of NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program (ExEP). It serves as a community-based, interdisciplinary forum for analysis in support of activity prioritization and for future exploration.

Physics of the Cosmos (PCOS) - http://pcos.gsfc.nasa.gov/

• Program Analysis Group (PhysPAG) - http://pcos.gsfc.nasa.gov/physpag/
  The PHYSPAG serves as a forum for soliciting and coordinating input and analysis from the scientific community in support of the PCOS program objectives.

Cosmic Origins (COR) - http://cor.gsfc.nasa.gov/

• Cosmic Origins Program Analysis Group (COPAG) - http://cor.gsfc.nasa.gov/copag/
  The COPAG is constituted by the NASA Astrophysics Subcommittee (ApS) to support community coordination and analysis of scientific and technological issues impacting NASA's Cosmic Origins Program.

Explorers - https://explorers.gsfc.nasa.gov​

• NASA’s program of Small Explorer (SMEX) missions. The Explorers Program provides frequent flight opportunities for world-class scientific investigations from space utilizing innovative, streamlined and efficient management approaches within the heliophysics and astrophysics science areas

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Exoplanet Exploration Program Mission Websites

• Kepler - http://kepler.nasa.gov
• K2 - http://keplerscience.arc.nasa.gov/index.html
• WFIRST - http://wfirst.gsfc.nasa.gov/
• NN-Explore - https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/exep/NNExplore/
• LBTI - http://nexsci.caltech.edu/missions/LBTI/
• NExScI - http://nexsci.caltech.edu/

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The Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS)

The Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (https://nexss.info) is an interdisciplinary endeavor that taps into the collective expertise from each of the science communities supported by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate:

• Earth scientists develop a systems science approach by studying our home planet.
• Planetary scientists apply systems science to a wide variety of worlds within our solar system.
• Heliophysicists add another layer to this systems science approach, looking in detail at how the Sun interacts with orbiting planets.
• Astrophysicists provide data on the exoplanets and host stars for the application of this systems science framework.

Other NASA Exoplanet mission websites

• JWST - http://jwst.nasa.gov/
• TESS - https://tess.gsfc.nasa.gov/
• SOFIA - http://www.sofia.usra.edu/