The Microlensing Planet finder: Completing the census of extrasolar Planets in the Milky Way

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5487, Issue PART 3, 2004, Pages 1453-1464

  Bennett, D P ^a   Bond, I ^b   Cheng, E ^c   Friedman, S ^d   Garnavich, P ^a   Gaudi, B ^e   Gilliland, R ^d   Gould, A ^f   Greenhouse, M ^g   Griest, K ^h   Kimble, R ^g   Lunine, J ⁱ   Mather, J ^g   Minniti, D ^j   Niedner, M ^g   Paczynski, B ^k   Peale, S ^l   Rauscher, B ^g   Rich, M ^m   Sahu, K ^d   Tenerelli, D ⁿ   Udalski, A ^o   Woolf, N ^d   Yock, P ^p   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c Conceptual Analytics LLC ^*  (United States)

^d STScI   (United States)

^e HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^f OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^j PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^k PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁿ LOCKHEED MARTIN SPACE SYSTEMS COMPANY   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^p UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

more..

Author keywords

Extrasolar Planets; Gravitational Lensing; SPIE Proceedings

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFRARED IMAGING; INTERFEROMETERS; SPACE OPTICS; SPACE TELESCOPES;

EXTRASOLAR PLANETS; GRAVITATIONAL LENSING; MICROLENSING PLANET FINDER (MPF); SPIE PROCEEDINGS;

PLANETS;

EID: 10044293192     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551305     Document Type: Conference Paper

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