The Lyot project: Toward exoplanet imaging and spectroscopy

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5490, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 433-442

  Oppenheimer, Ben R ^a   Digby, Andrew P ^a   Newburgh, Laura ^a   Brenner, Douglas ^a   Shara, Michael ^a   Mey, Jacob ^a   Mandeville, Charles ^a   Makidon, Russell B ^b   Sivaramakrishnan, Anand ^b   Soummer, Remi ^b   Graham, James R ^c   Kalas, Paul ^c   Perrin, Marshall ^c   Roberts Jr , Lewis C ^d   Kuhn, Jeffrey ^c   Whitman, Kathryn ^e   Lloyd, James P ^f  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b STScI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Coronagraphy; Exoplanets; Extrasolar planets; Instrumentation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS; DIFFRACTION; SPECTROSCOPY; WAVEFRONTS;

CORONAGRAPHY; EXOPLANETS; EXTRASOLAR PLANETS; INSTRUMENTATION;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 19944411432     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552211     Document Type: Conference Paper

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