Finding earth clones with SIM: The most promising near-term technique to detect, find masses for, and determine three-dimensional orbits of nearby habitable planets

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6693, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Shao, Michael ^a   Unwin, Stephen C ^a   Beichman, Charles ^b   Catanzarite, Joseph ^a   Edberg, Stephen J ^a   Marr IV, James C ^a   Marcy, Geoffrey ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JOVIAN PLANETS; PLANET DETECTION METHODS;

INTERFEROMETERS; PLANETS; STARS;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 42149102719     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.734671     Document Type: Conference Paper

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