Requirements on the stellar rejection for the DARWIN mission

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5491, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 275-283

  Kaltenegger, Lisa ^a   Karlsson, Anders ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

DARWIN; Nulling Interferometry; SNR; TPF

Indexed keywords

INFRARED IMAGING; INTEGRATION; INTERFEROMETRY; MAPS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PLANETS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; WAVEFRONTS;

DARWIN; NULLING INTERFEROMETRY; STAR SUPPRESSION; TPF;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 11144268186     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551459     Document Type: Conference Paper

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