Calibration of residual speckle in a nulling coronagraph

Comptes Rendus Physique

Volumn 8, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 340-348

  Shao, Michael ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nulling coronagraph; Residual speckle

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447096371     PISSN: 16310705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crhy.2007.03.002     Document Type: Short Survey

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