Occulting focal plane masks for Terrestrial Planet Finder Coronagraph: Design, fabrication, simulations and test results

Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union

Volumn 1, Issue C200, 2005, Pages 405-409

  Balasubramanian, Kunjithapatham ^a   Hoppe, Daniel J ^a   Halverson, Peter G ^a   Wilson, Daniel W ^a   Echternach, Pierre M ^a   Shi, Fang ^a   Lowman, Andrew E ^a   Niessner, Albert F ^a   Trauger, John T ^a   Shaklan, Stuart B ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Instrumentation: adaptive optics; Instrumentation: high angular resolution; Instrumentation: miscellaneous

Indexed keywords

EID: 63549147316     PISSN: 17439213     EISSN: 17439221     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1017/S1743921306009665     Document Type: Article

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