@inproceedings{dac911998a4f41a8a9cc317ba2fec0dc,
title = "Planet Formation Imager (PFI): Project update and future directions",
abstract = "The Planet Formation Imager (PFI) Project is dedicated to defining a next-generation facility that can answer fundamental questions about how planets form, including detection of young giant exoplanets and their circumplanetary disks. The proposed expansive design for a 12-element array of 8m class telescopes with >1.2 km baselines would indeed revolutionize our understanding of planet formation and is technically achievable, albeit at a high cost. It has been 10 years since this conceptual design process began and we give an overview of the status of the PFI project. We also review how a scaled back PFI with fewer large telescopes could answer a range of compelling science questions, including in planet formation and as well as totally different astrophysics areas. New opportunities make a space-based PFI more feasible now and we give a brief overview of new efforts that could also pave the way for the Large Interferometer for Exoplanets (LIFE) space mission.",
keywords = "Infrared interferometry, PFI, Planet formation",
author = "Monnier, \{John D.\} and Stefan Kraus and Ireland, \{Michael J.\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2024 SPIE.; Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging IX 2024 ; Conference date: 17-06-2024 Through 22-06-2024",
year = "2024",
doi = "10.1117/12.3028919",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Jens Kammerer and Stephanie Sallum and Joel Sanchez-Bermudez",
booktitle = "Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging IX",
address = "United States",
}