Exoplanet detection using a nulling interferometer

Optics Express

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 36-41

  Cagigal, Manuel P ^a   Canales, Vidal F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ASTRONOMY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT SOURCES; PHOTONS; PLANETS; SPECKLE;

ASTRONOMICAL OPTICS; EXOPLANET DETECTION; JUPITER;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 3242752050     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.9.000036     Document Type: Article

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