NICI: combining coronagraphy, ADI, and SDI

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7014, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Artigau, Etienne ^a   Biller, Beth A ^b   Wahhaj, Zahed ^b   Hartung, Markus ^a   Hayward, Thomas L ^a   Close, Laird M ^c   Chun, Mark R ^b   Liu, Michael C ^b   Trancho, Gelys ^a   Rigaut, Francois ^a   Toomey, Douglas W ^d   Ftaclas, Christ ^b  

^a GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d Mauna Kea Infrared LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Infrared; Instrumentation

Indexed keywords

CASSEGRAIN ROTATOR; CORONAGRAPHY; DIRECT IMAGING; DUAL CHANNEL; EXO-PLANETS; HIGH CONTRAST; INFRARED; INSTRUMENTATION; NEAR INFRARED;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; IMAGE SENSORS;

INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 64849099717     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.788390     Document Type: Conference Paper

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