Observing strategies for the NICI campaign to directly image extrasolar planets

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7015, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Biller, Beth ^a   Artigau, Étienne ^b   Wahhaj, Zahed ^a   Hartung, Markus ^b   Liu, Michael C ^a   Close, Laird M ^c   Chun, Mark R ^a   Ftaclas, Christ ^a   Toomey, Douglas W ^d   Hayward, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d Mauna Kea Infrared LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Extrasolar planets; Infrared; Instrumentation

Indexed keywords

CASSEGRAIN ROTATOR; DUAL CHANNEL; EXTRASOLAR PLANETS; INFRARED; INSTRUMENTATION; NEAR INFRARED; PLANET SEARCH; SERVICE MODE; SUPERSPECKLES;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; INSTRUMENTS; SURVEYS;

PLANETS;

EID: 64849102350     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789565     Document Type: Conference Paper

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