Planet-finding performance of the TPF-I Emma architecture

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6693, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Lay, Oliver P ^a   Martin, Stefan R ^a   Hunyadi, Sarah L ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nulling; Optical interferometry; Planet detection

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR RESOLUTION; NULLING; OPTICAL INTERFEROMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; INTERFEROMETRY; SPACE APPLICATIONS;

PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 42149128337     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.732230     Document Type: Conference Paper

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