Hunting planets and observing disks with the JWST NIRCam coronagraph

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6693, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Krist, John E ^a   Beichman, Charles A ^a   Trauger, John T ^a   Rieke, Marcia J ^b   Somerstein, Steve ^c   Green, Joseph J ^a   Horner, Scott D ^c   Stansberry, John A ^b   Shi, Fang ^a   Meyer, Michael R ^b   Stapelfeldt, Karl R ^a   Roellig, Thomas L ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^d NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Circumstellar disks; Coronagraph; Extrasolar planets; James webb space telescope; NIRCam

Indexed keywords

CIRCUMSTELLAR DISKS; CORONAGRAPH; EXTRASOLAR PLANETS; JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PLANETS;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 42149170678     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.734873     Document Type: Conference Paper

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