Apodized Square Aperture Plus Occulter Concept for TPF

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5487, Issue PART 3, 2004, Pages 1391-1401

  Jordan, Ian J E ^a   Schultz, Alfred B ^a   Lyon, Richard G ^b   Hart, Helen M ^c   Bruhweiler, Fred ^d   Fraquelli, Dorothy ^a   Carpenter, Ken ^b   Kochte, Mark ^a   Hollis, Jan M ^b  

^a Space Telescope Science Institute ^*  (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Inst for Astrophys and Compl Sci   (United States)

Author keywords

Apodized Square Aperture; External Occulter; Star Visor; TPF Architecture

Indexed keywords

COSTS; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PLANETS; SPACE OPTICS; SPACECRAFT;

APODIZED SQUARE APERTURE; EXTERNAL OCCULTER; STAR VISOR; TERRESTRIAL PLANET FINDING (TPF) ARCHITECTURE;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 10044242702     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.553029     Document Type: Conference Paper

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