Darwin a mission overview

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6265 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Karlsson, A ^a   D'Arcio, L ^a   Den Hartog, R ^a   Fridlund, M ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Darwin; Nulling interferometry; Space mission

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; ORBITS; PLANETS;

DARWIN (SPACE MISSION); EXO-PLANETS; INTERFEROMETRIC BEAM; NULLING INTERFEROMETRY;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 33749003207     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.669791     Document Type: Conference Paper

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