Detecting and characterizing exoplanets with multi-color detector assemblies

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5382, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 21-26

  Doyon, René ^a   Lafrenière, David ^a   Marois, Christian ^a   Racine, René ^a   Nadeau, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Exoplanets; Extreme adaptive optics; High contrast imaging; Instrumentation

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PLANETS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

DETECTOR ASSEMBLIES; EXOPLANETS; HIGH CONTRAST IMAGING; INSTRUMENTATION; MULTI COLOR DETECTOR ASSEMBLY (MCDA);

TELESCOPES;

EID: 5444221335     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.566102     Document Type: Conference Paper

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