Recent progress of visible light nulling interferometry and first 1 million null result

Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union

Volumn 1, Issue C200, 2005, Pages 353-360

  Schmidtlin, Edouard ^a   Wallace, J Kent ^a   Samuele, Rocco ^b   Levine, B Martin ^a   Shao, Michael ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Extra solar planet detection; Interferometry; Nulling; Optical path stabilization

Indexed keywords

EID: 63549101859     PISSN: 17439213     EISSN: 17439221     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1017/S1743921306009586     Document Type: Article

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