The Lyot Project: status and results

Comptes Rendus Physique

Volumn 8, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 355-364

  Sivaramakrishnan, Anand ^a   Oppenheimer, Ben R ^a   Hinkley, Sasha ^a   Brenner, Douglas ^a   Soummer, Rémi ^a   Mey, Jacob L ^a   Lloyd, James P ^b   Perrin, Marshall D ^c   Graham, James R ^c   Makidon, Russell B ^d   Roberts Jr , Lewis C ^e   Kuhn, Jeffrey R ^f  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STScI   (United States)

^e BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Astrometry; Coronagraphy; Instrumentation; Photometry; Planet detection; Simultaneous polarization

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447094334     PISSN: 16310705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crhy.2007.04.001     Document Type: Short Survey

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