A coronagraph with a band-limited mask for finding terrestrial planets

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 570, Issue 2 I, 2002, Pages 900-908

  Kuchner, Marc J ^a   Traub, Wesley A ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrobiology; Circumstellar matter; Instrumentation: adaptive optics planetary systems; Techniques: interferometric

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012548578     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/339625     Document Type: Article

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