Coronagraph contrast demonstrations with the high contrast imaging testbed

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5487, Issue PART 3, 2004, Pages 1330-1336

  Trauger, John ^a   Burrows, Chris ^b   Gordon, Brian ^a   Green, Joseph ^a   Lowman, Andrew ^a,b   Moody, Dwight ^a   Niessner, Albert ^a   Shi, Fang ^a   Wilson, Daniel ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Metajiva   (United States)

Author keywords

Active optics; Coronagraphs; Space astronomy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ASTRONOMY; BANDWIDTH; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIRRORS; PLANETS; SPACE RESEARCH; WAVEFRONTS;

ACTIVE OPTICS; CORONAGRAPHIC ALGORITHMS; CORONAGRAPHS; SPACE ASTRONOMY;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 10044250190     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552520     Document Type: Conference Paper

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