The 4-meter space telescope for investigating extrasolar Earth-like planets in starlight: TPF is HST2

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4854, Issue , 2002, Pages 95-107

  Brown, Robert A ^a   Burrows, Christopher J ^b   Casertano, Stefano ^a   Clampin, Mark ^a   Ebbets, Dennis ^c   Fords, Eric B ^d   Jucks, Kenneth W ^e   Kasdin, N Jeremy ^f   Kilston, Steven ^c   Kuchner, Marc J ^e   Seager, Sara ^g   Sozzetti, Alessandro ^e,h   Spergel, David N ^d   Traub, Wesley A ^e   Trauger, John T ⁱ   Turner, Edwin L ^d  

^a AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

^b Metajiva   (United States)

^c BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^e HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^f Princeton University   (United States)

^g INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

ⁱ CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronagraphs; Deformable mirrors; Extrasolar planet detection

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; EARTH (PLANET); MIRRORS; OZONE; PLANETS; WAVEFRONTS;

CORONAGRAPHS; DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; EXTRASOLAR PLANET DETECTION;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037518306     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459819     Document Type: Conference Paper

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