Telescope to Observe Planetary Systems (TOPS): A high throughput 1.2-m visible telescope with a small inner working angle

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6265 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Guyon, Olivier ^a,b   Angel, James R P ^b   Bowers, Charles ^c   Burge, James ^c   Burrows, Adam ^c   Codona, Johanan ^c   Greene, Thomas ^d   Iye, Masanori ^a   Kasting, James ^e   Martin, Hubert ^b   McCarthy Jr , Donald W ^b   Meadows, Victoria ^f   Meyer, Michael ^b   Pluzhnik, Eugene A ^a   Sleep, Norman ^g   Spears, Tony ^h   Tamura, Motohide ^a   Tenerelli, Domenick ⁱ   Vanderbei, Robert ^j   Woodgate, Bruce ^c   Woodruff, Robert A ⁱ   Woolf, Neville J ^b   more..

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h LOGYX   (United States)

ⁱ Lockheed Martin Space Corporation   (United States)

^j PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Adaptive Optics; Coronagraphy; Exoplanets; Space Telescopes

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; THROUGHPUT;

EXOPLANETS; PHASE-INDUCED AMPLITUDE APODIZATION (PIAA) CORONAGRAPH; TELESCOPE TO OBSERVE PLANETARY SYSTEMS (TOPS); WAVEFRONT ABERRATIONS;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 33748989545     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672498     Document Type: Conference Paper

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