Externally occulted terrestrial planet finder coronagraph: Simulations and sensitivities

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6687, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Lyon, Richard G ^a   Heap, Sally ^a   Lo, Amy ^b   Cash, Webster ^c   Starkman, Glenn D ^d   Vanderbei, Robert J ^e   Kasdin, N Jeremy ^e   Copi, Craig J ^d  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam propagation; Coronagraphy; Exo solar; Fourier optics; Occulters; Starshade; Terrestrial planets

Indexed keywords

BEAM PROPAGATION; CORONAGRAPHY; OCCULTERS; STARSHADE;

SENSORS; SPACE TELESCOPES; STARS;

PLANETS;

EID: 42149104569     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.731755     Document Type: Conference Paper

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