UMBRAS: A matched occulter and telescope for imaging extrasolar planets

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4860, Issue , 2002, Pages 54-61

  Schultz, A B ^a   Jordan, I J E ^a   Kochte, M ^a   Fraquelli, D ^a   Bruhweiler, F ^b   Hollis, J M ^c   Carpenter, K G ^c   Lyon, R G ^c   DiSanti, M ^b   Miskey, C ^b   Leitner, J ^c   Burns, R D ^c   Starin, S R ^c   Rodrigue, M ^d   Fadali, M S ^e   Skelton, D ^f   Hart, H M ^g   Hamilton, F ^a   Cheng, K P ^h  

^a Space Telescope Science Institute ^*  (United States)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^e University of Nevada   (United States)

^f NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^g JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; LASERS; PLANETS; SOLAR CELLS; SPACE RENDEZVOUS; SPACECRAFT; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

EXTRASOLAR PLANETS; OCCULTER; SOLAR POWERED ION DRIVEN ECLIPSING ROVER; UMBRAL MISSIONS BLOCKING RADIATING ASTRONOMICAL SOURCES;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037612185     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.457643     Document Type: Conference Paper

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