2026
Submitted 1st Author

Understanding HWO's Field of Regard and Characterization Requirement Trade Space with a Dynamic Observation Scheduling Algorithm

Corey Spohn , Chris Stark , Dmitry Savransky , Natasha Latouf

Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems

2025
Under Review

Characterizing Earth analogs may require a moderate or high-resolution spectrograph

Jean-Baptiste Ruffio , Sarah Steiger , Corey Spohn , et al.

Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems

Published 1st Author

yieldplotlib: A unified library for exoplanet yield code visualizations

Corey Spohn , Sarah Steiger , Alex Howe

Journal of Open Source Software

Published 1st Author

A Refined Photometric Constraint for Exoplanet Direct Imaging Yield Estimation and Observation Scheduling

Corey Spohn , Dmitry Savransky , Chris Stark

The Astronomical Journal

2024
Published 1st Author

How the Habitable Worlds Observatory's field of regard will impact the use of precursor science

Corey Spohn , Chris Stark , Dmitry Savransky

Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave

DOI: 10.1117/12.3020689 →
2023
Published 1st Author

Planning Direct Imaging Observations of Exoplanets with Precursor Data

Corey Spohn

Cornell University

DOI: 10.7298/hvz9-7325 →
Published

Quantifying the impacts of schedulability on science yield of exoplanet direct imaging missions

Dmitry Savransky , Russell Knight , Michael Turmon , Corey Spohn , Rhonda Morgan , Mario Damiano , Grace Genszler , Jackson Kulik

SPIE Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets XI

DOI: 10.1117/12.2677102 →
2022
Published 1st Author

Scheduling Direct Imaging Observations Based on Radial Velocity Orbital Fits: Best Practices for Translating Orbits and Failure Modes

Corey Spohn , Dmitry Savransky , Rhonda Morgan

The Astronomical Journal

DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ac5049 →
Published 1st Author

Direct imaging mission planning with precursor radial velocity data: process and validation

Corey Spohn , Dmitry Savransky

Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave

DOI: 10.1117/12.2627262 →
2021
Published

Integration Time Adjusted Completeness

Dean Keithly , Dmitry Savransky , Corey Spohn

Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems

DOI: 10.1117/1.JATIS.7.3.037002 →
2020
Published 1st Author

Suppressing Condensation Frosting Using an Out-of-Plane Dry Zone

Corey Spohn , Farzad Ahmadi , Saurabh Nath , Jonathan Boreyko

Langmuir

DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c03054 →
Published 1st Author

How orbital fit uncertainties impact dynamic scheduling

Corey Spohn , Dmitry Savransky

SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2020

DOI: 10.1117/12.2562799 →
FIELD REPORTS

Technical Notes

Informal tutorials, insights, and notes from the field.

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