Speckle nulling for exoplanet detection with space-based coronagraphic telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6265 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Bordé, Pascal J ^a,b   Traub, Wesley A ^a,c   Kern, Brian D ^c   Trauger, John T ^c   Kuhnert, Andreas C ^c  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive Optics; Coronagraphy; Exoplanets; High contrast imaging

Indexed keywords

CORONAGRAPHY; EXOPLANETS; HIGH-CONTRAST IMAGING; STAR LIGHT;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION; LIGHT; LIGHT SCATTERING; MIRRORS; PHOTONS; PLANETS;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749017644     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.670553     Document Type: Conference Paper

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