Chasing Rainbows And Ocean Glints: Inner Working Angle Constraints For The Habitable Worlds Observatory

Normalized total flux and normalized linearly polarized flux phase curves of a cloudy planet with a wavy sea surface and an Earth-like atmosphere in an edge-on orbit (adapted from Trees & Stam 2019). The sea surface wind speed (Cox & Munk 1954), which determines the wave height, is 7 m/s and the clouds are composed […]