Direct studies of exo-planets with the New Worlds Observer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5899, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-12

  Cash, Webster ^a   Kasdin, Jeremy ^b   Seager, Sara ^c   Arenberg, Jonathon ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrobiology; Coronography; Exoplanets

Indexed keywords

ASTROBIOLOGY; CORONOGRAPHY; EXOPLANETS;

ASTRONOMY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHOTOMETRY; SPACE RENDEZVOUS; SPACECRAFT;

PLANETS;

EID: 29344451436     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.617377     Document Type: Conference Paper

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