A laboratory demonstration of the capability to image an Earth-like extrasolar planet

Nature

Volumn 446, Issue 7137, 2007, Pages 771-773

  Trauger, John T ^a   Traub, Wesley A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTION METHOD; IMAGE PROCESSING; LABORATORY METHOD; PLANET; SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT SCATTERING; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPACE; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 34147203565     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05729     Document Type: Article

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