Exploration of the environments of nearby stars with the NICMOS coronagraph -Instrumental performance considerations

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3356, Issue , 1998, Pages 222-233

  Schneider, Glenn ^a   Thompson, Rodger I ^a   Smith, Bradford A ^b   Terrile, Richard J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brown Dwarfs; Coronagraphy; Extra Solar Planets; Hubble Space Telescope; Infrared

Indexed keywords

BROWN DWARFS; CORONAGRAPHY; EXTRA SOLAR PLANETS; HIGH SPATIAL FREQUENCY; HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPES; IMAGING CAPABILITIES; NEAR INFRARED CAMERAS; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTIONS;

CAMERAS; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; OPTICS; SPACE TELESCOPES; AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; INFRARED IMAGING; LIGHT SCATTERING; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

STARS; INFRARED SPECTROMETERS;

CORONAGRAPHY; HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPES; NEAR INFRARED CAMERA AND MULTI-OBJECT SPECTROMETERS (NICMOS); POINT SPREAD FUNCTION (PSF);

EID: 0032301073     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.324461     Document Type: Conference Paper

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