Multi-wavelength imaging concepts for exoplanet detection

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5492, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 500-506

  Lafrenière, David ^a   Doyon, René ^a   Racine, René ^a   Marois, Christian ^a   Nadeau, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Exoplanets; High contrast imaging; Speckle noise attenuation; Spectral differential imaging

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; COLOR; ERROR ANALYSIS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; SPECKLE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVEFRONTS;

EXOPLANETS; HIGH CONTRAST IMAGING; SPECKLE NOISE ATTENUATION; SPECTRAL DIFFERENTIAL IMAGING;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 10444263766     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551798     Document Type: Conference Paper

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