Deep and stable interferometric nulling of broadband light with implications for observing planets around nearby stars

Nature

Volumn 406, Issue 6797, 2000, Pages 700-702

  Wallace, Kent ^a   Hardy, Graham ^a   Serabyn, Eugene ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0034680141     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35021007     Document Type: Article

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