The Galactic Exoplanet Survey Telescope (GEST)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4854, Issue , 2002, Pages 141-157

  Bennett, D P ^a   Bally, J ^b   Bond, I ^c   Cheng, E ^d   Cook, K ^e   Deming, D ^f   Garnavich, P ^a   Griest, K ^f   Jewitt, D ^g   Kaiser, N ^g   Lauer, T ^h   Lunine, J ⁱ   Luppino, G ^g   Mather, J ^d   Minnitti, D ^j   Peale, S ^k   Rhie, S ^a   Rhodes, J ^d   Schneider, J ^l   Sonneborn, G ^d   Stevenson, R ^a   Stubbs, C ^m   Tenerelli, D ⁿ   Woolf, N ⁱ   Yock, P ^c   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^h NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^j PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^m UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

ⁿ LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Extra solar planets; Gravitational lensing; SPIE proceedings

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); GALAXIES; GRAVITATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EXTRA-SOLAR PLANETS; GALACTIC EXOPLANET SURVEY TELESCOPE;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038532384     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459816     Document Type: Conference Paper

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