Design and performance of the Terrestrial Planet Finder Coronagraph

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5487, Issue PART 3, 2004, Pages 1234-1245

  White, Mary ^a   Shaklan, Stuart ^a   Douglas Lisman, P ^a   Ho, Timothy ^a   Mouroulis, Pantazis ^a   Basinger, Scott ^a   Ledeboer, Bill ^a   Kwack, Bug ^a   Kissil, Andy ^a   Mosier, Gary ^b   Liu, Alice ^b   Bowers, Chuck ^b   Blaurock, Carl ^c   Cafferty, Terry ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c Mide Technology Corp   (United States)

^d TC Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORONAGRAPHS; TERRESTRIAL PLANET FINDER (TPF); THERMAL GRADIENT; THERMAL SENSITIVITY;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FITS AND TOLERANCES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 10044238003     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552335     Document Type: Conference Paper

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