The science case of the CHEOPS Planet Finder for VLT

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5492, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 1010-1021

  Gratton, R ^a   Feldt, M ^b   Schmid, H M ^c   Brandner, W ^b   Hippler, S ^b   Neuhauser R ^d   Quirrenbach, A ^e   Desidera, S ^a   Turatto, M ^a   Stam, D M ^f  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d Astrophysical Institute Jena   (Germany)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptive Optics; Brown Dwarfs; Extrasolar planets; Integral Field Spectrograph

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ASTRONOMY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PLANETS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SPECKLE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

BROWN DWARFS; EXTRASOLAR PLANETS; INFRARED FIELD SPECTROGRAPH;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 10444254675     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551417     Document Type: Conference Paper

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