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Rally around the science• The Astro2010 calls for consensus on exoplanet mission readiness.• Rally around a compelling science mission with high readiness, elsecede the future of exoplanet missions to the next decadal survey.• The astrophysics of exoplanet systems is the compelling science ofthe coming decade, i.e., direct imaging and spectroscopy.• A successful concept also supports general astrophysics (UV-visibleimaging and spectroscopy) in the post-Hubble area.• A coronagraph mission serves a broad range of astrophysics, sincecoronagraph is in essence one selectable observing mode in a verystable general astrophysics space telescope.
Exoplanet Discovery SpaceAsterisks: known exoplanetsCurves: instrument capabilitiesColors: photometry bandsBlobs: regions of high likelihoodfor detection of Jupiter-twins andEarth-twins orbiting the nearest100 AFGK stars3
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