Laboratory studies of petal-shaped occulters

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6693, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Schindhelm, E ^a   Shipley, A ^a   Oakley, P ^a   Leviton, D ^c   Cash, W ^a   Card, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronagraph; Extrasolar planets; High contrast; New worlds observer; Occulter; TPF O

Indexed keywords

CORONAGRAPH; EXTRASOLAR PLANETS; HIGH CONTRAST;

DIFFRACTION PATTERNS; OBSERVATORIES;

PLANETS;

EID: 42149096064     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.734480     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

1. Cash, W., "Detection of Earth-like planets around nearby stars using a petal-shaped occulter," Nature, 442, 51-53, 2006.
2. Vanderbei, R.J., Kasdin, N.J., Cady, E., "Optimal Occulter Design for Finding Extrasolar Planets," arXiv:0704.3488
3. Dubra, A., Ferrari, J., "Diffracted field by an arbitrary aperture," Am. J. Phys., 67, 1, 1999
4. Leviton et al., these proceedings.