Optical design considerations for the Terrestrial Planet Finder - Coronagraph Mission: Optical telescope assembly

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5874, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-10

  Howard, Joseph M ^a   Mouroulis, Pantazis ^b   Thompson, Anita ^c   Smith, Andrew ^a   Content, David ^a   Ho, Timothy ^b   Jackson, Clifton ^a   Ohl, Raymond G ^a   Shaklan, Stuart B ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronagraphs; Optical design; Planet finding; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

APERTURE WAVELENGTH; CORONOGRAPHS; EXOPLANETS; PLANET FINDING;

OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PLANETS; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SPACE TELESCOPES;

OPTICAL DESIGN;

EID: 29144526133     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.618380     Document Type: Conference Paper

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