Preparing the PRIMA astrometric planet search: Selecting suitable target and reference stars

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5491, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 1166-1173

  Frink, Sabine ^a   Hekker, Saskia ^a   Launhardt, Ralf ^b   Setiawan, Johny ^b   Ségransan, Damien ^c   Quirrenbach, Andreas ^a   Henning, Thomas ^b   Queloz, Didier ^c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Astrometry; Extrasolar Planets; Interferometry; PRIMA; Reference Star; VLTI

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FUNCTIONS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY;

ASTROMETRY; EXTRASOLAR PLANETS; PRIMA; REFERENCE STAR; VLTI;

PLANETS;

EID: 11144341561     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551817     Document Type: Conference Paper

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