The Terrestrial Planet Finder Coronagraph dynamics error budget

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5905, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-12

  Shaklan, Stuart B ^a,b   Marchen, Luis ^a   Green, Joseph J ^a   Lay, Oliver P ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronagraph; Error budget; Error modeling; Extrasolar planets; Telescope

Indexed keywords

DEMODULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PLANETS; WAVEFRONTS; WAVEGUIDES;

CORONAGRAPHS; ERROR BUDGET; ERROR MODELING; EXTRASOLAR PLANETS;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 29144500091     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.617890     Document Type: Conference Paper

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