Instrumental stability requirements for exoplanet detection with a nulling interferometer: Variability noise as a central issue

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 984-992

  Chazelas, Bruno ^a   Brachet, Frank ^a   Bordé, Pascal ^b   Mennesson, Bertrand ^c   Ollivier, Marc ^a   Absil, Olivier ^d   Labèque, Alain ^a   Valette, Claude ^a   Léger, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYSTEM STABILITY; TELESCOPES;

INSTRUMENTAL STABILITY; NULLING INTERFEROMETER; STELLAR SIGNAL; WAVELENGTHS;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 33645137597     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.000984     Document Type: Article

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