First Planet Confirmation with the Exoplanet Tracker

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5170, Issue , 2003, Pages 250-261

  Van Eyken, J C ^a   Ge, J ^a   Mahadevan, S ^a   DeWitt, C ^a   Ren, D ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Doppler; Extra solar planets; Interferometer; Multi object; Radial velocity; Survey

Indexed keywords

EXOPLANET TRACKER; EXTRA-SOLAR PLANETS; FRINGES; MULTI-OBJECT; RADIAL VELOCITY;

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DOPPLER EFFECT; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPECTROGRAPHS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURVEYING;

PLANETS;

EID: 2342469469     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.506012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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