First results of nulling interferometry with the Multiple Mirror Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3350, Issue , 1998, Pages 439-447

  Hinz, Philip M ^a   Angel, James Roger P ^a   Hoffmann, William F ^a   McCarthy Jr , Donald W ^a   McGuire, Patrick C ^a   Cheselka, Matthew ^a   Hora, Joseph L ^b   Woolf, Neville J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extra solar planet detection; Interferometry; Nulling

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; INTERFEROMETRY; MIRRORS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PLANETS; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES; TELESCOPES; WAVEFRONTS;

ACTIVE PHASE; ARRAY DETECTORS; BEAM SPLITTERS; EXTRA-SOLAR PLANET DETECTION; IMAGE PLANES; NULLING; NULLING INTERFEROMETRY; PHASE DIFFERENCES; RESIDUAL FLUX; SAMPLING TIME; SHORT-EXPOSURE IMAGES;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 2342555037     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317108     Document Type: Conference Paper

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