Extra-solar planetary imager (ESPI) for space based Jovian planetary detection

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4860, Issue , 2002, Pages 45-53

  Lyon, Richard G ^a   Gezari, Dan Y ^a   Melnick, Gary J ^e   Nisenson, Peter ^e   Papaliolios, Costa ^e   Ridgeway, Steve ^b   Friedman, Edward ^c   Harwit, Martin ^d   Graf, Paul ^e  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b NOAO   (United States)

^c BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^d Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Coronagrapy; Detectability; Exo solar planets; Exoplanets; Terrestrial planet finder

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; DIFFRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SPACE TELESCOPES;

EXTRA SOLAR PLANETARY IMAGER; SCALABILITY; SCIENTIFIC RAMIFICATION; SPACE BASED JOVIAN PLANETARY DETECTION;

PLANETS;

EID: 0038287615     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.457843     Document Type: Conference Paper

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