A visible light terrestrial planet finder - Planet detection and spectroscopy by nulling interferometry with a single aperture telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4852, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 221-229

  Levine, B M ^a   Shao, Michael ^a   Beichman, C A ^a   Mennesson, B ^a   Morgan, R ^a   Orton, G ^a   Serabyn, E ^a   Unwin, S ^a   Velusamy, T ^a   Woolf, N ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronagraph; Nulling interferometer; Planet detection; Space telescope

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPECTROSCOPY;

LIGHT TERRESTRIAL PLANET FINDER; NULLING INTERFEROMETER; PLANET DETECTION; SINGLE APERTURE TELESCOPES;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 0037612569     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460925     Document Type: Conference Paper

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