Characterizing earth-like planets with terrestrial planet finder

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4835, Issue , 2002, Pages 79-86

  Seager, S ^a   Ford, E B ^c   Turner, E L ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Extrasolar planets; Life

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); PHOTOMETRY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EXTRASOLAR GIANT PLANETS;

PLANETS;

EID: 0038755073     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.456559     Document Type: Conference Paper

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