Exoplanet imaging with the giant magellan telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6267 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Angel, Roger ^a   Codona, Johanan L ^a   Hinz, Phil ^a   Close, Laird ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST IMAGING; EXOPLANET IMAGING; GIANT MAGELLAN TELESCOPE (GMT); IMAGING PLANETS;

ALGORITHMS; INTERFEROMETRY; PLANETS; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPECKLE;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33748991457     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672251     Document Type: Conference Paper

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