Suppressing speckle noise for simultaneous differential extrasolar planet imaging (SDI) at the VLT and MMT

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5490, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 389-397

  Biller, B A ^a   Close, L ^b   Lenzen, R ^b   Brandner, W ^b   McCarthy, D ^a   Nielsen, E ^a   Hartung, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Extrasolar planets; High contrast imaging; Simultaneous differential imaging

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; SOLAR SYSTEM; SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EXTRASOLAR PLANETS; HIGH CONTRAST IMAGING; SIMULTANEOUS DIFFERENTIAL IMAGING;

PLANETS;

EID: 11144314732     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552164     Document Type: Conference Paper

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