Detection of Earth-like planets around nearby stars using a petal-shaped occulter

Nature

Volumn 442, Issue 7098, 2006, Pages 51-53

  Cash, Webster ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; EARTH (PLANET); EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; TELESCOPES;

EARTH-LIKE PLANETS; LIGHT DIFFRACTION; METRE APERTURE; TERRESTRIAL PLANETS;

PLANETS;

OXYGEN;

IMAGING METHOD; INTERFEROMETER; INTERFEROMETRY; PLANET;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; COMET ASSAY; DEVICE; DIFFRACTION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 33745991972     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04930     Document Type: Article

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