Imaging Terrestrial Planets with a Free Flying Occulter and Space Telescope: An Optical Simulation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5170, Issue , 2003, Pages 262-271

  Schultz, A B ^a,i   Lyon, R G ^b   Kochte, M ^a   Fraquelli, D ^a   Bruhweiler, F ^c   Jordan, I J E ^a   Carpenter, K G ^b   DiSanti, M ^b   Miskey, C ^c   Rodrigue, M ^d   Fadali, M S ^e   Skelton, D ^f   Hart, H M ^g   Cheng, K P ^h  

^a Space Telescope Science Institute ^*  (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^e Reno   (United States)

^f NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^g JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ STScI   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronagraph; Exo planet detection; Occulter; Space telescope

Indexed keywords

CORONAGRAPH; EXO-PLANET DETECTION; OCCULTER; TERRESTRIAL PLANETS IMAGING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL DESIGN; SPACECRAFT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 2342545570     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.506192     Document Type: Conference Paper

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