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Collaboration and Competition in Exoplanet Research

Collaboration and competition are strong driving forces in the modern search for exoplanets, appears between individuals, agencies and nations as well as between observing techniques and theoretical interpretation. I will argue that these forces, taken in balance, are beneficial to the field and are partly responsible for the rapid progress in the search for planets and ultimately the search for life beyond the solar system. Specific examples will include indirect detection of Earth analogs from ground and space and the direct detection of gas giant and terrestrial planets.

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Tracking the moving optical photocenters of active galaxies: binary black holes, accretion disks and relativistic jets

We will use the astrometric capabilities of the Space Interferometry Mission to answer three key questions about active galactic nuclei: 1) Does the separation of the radio core and optical photocenter of quasars change on the same timescale as their photometric variability? 2) Does the most compact optical emission from an active galactic nucleus come from an accretion disk or from a relativistic jet? and 3) Do the cores of galaxies harbor binary supermassive black holes remaining from galaxy mergers?

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SIM science operations

This paper describes the science scheduling and operation of the Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) as a science instrument

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The Space Interferometry Mission

In this paper we outline the design of the SIM Instrument, and how it will be used in the search for extrasolar planets. We also briefly describe some selected topics from the SIM astrometric science program.

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The Keck Interferometer

The Keck Interferometer is being developed by JPL and CARA as one of the ground-based components of NASA's Origins Program. The interferometer will combine the two 10-m Keck telescopes with four proposed 1.8-m outrigger telescopes located at the periphery of the Keck site on Mauna Kea.

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