New worlds observer tolerance overview

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6687, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Shipley, Ann ^a   Cash, Webster ^a   Arenberg, Jonathan W ^b   Lo, Amy S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast; Diffraction; Exoplanet; New worlds; Occulter; Starshade; Starshield; Suppression; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

STARSHADES;

SPACECRAFT; STARS;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 42149169183     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.734850     Document Type: Conference Paper

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3. Cash, W. et al, "External Occulters for Direct Observation of Exoplanets: An Overview," Proceedings of the SPIE, 6687, (2007).
4. Jonathan Arenberg et al, "New Worlds Occulter Performance: A First Look," Proceedings of the SPIE, 6687, (2007).
5. E. Schindhelm et al., "Laboratory Studies of Petal-Shaped Occulters," Proceedings of the SPIE, 6687, (2007).