SPHERE: a 'Planet Finder' instrument for the VLT

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7014, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Beuzit, Jean Luc ^a   Feldt, Markus ^b   Dohlen, Kjetil ^c   Mouillet, David ^a   Puget, Pascal ^a   Wildi, Francois ^d   Abe, Lyu ^e   Antichi, Jacopo ^f   Baruffolo, Andrea ^f   Baudoz, Pierre ^g   Boccaletti, Anthony ^h   Carbillet, Marcel ^e   Charton, Julien ^a   Claudi, Riccardo ^f   Downing, Mark ^h   Fabron, Christophe ^c   Feautrier, Philippe ^a   Fedrigo, Enrico ^h   Fusco, Thierry ⁱ   Gach, Jean Luc ^c   Gratton, Raffaele ^f   Henning, Thomas ^b   Hubin, Norbert ^h   Joos, Franco ^k   Kasper, Markus ^h   Langlois, Maud ^c   Lenzen, Rainer ^b   Moutou, Claire ^c   Pavlov, Alexey ^b   Petit, Cyril ⁱ   Pragt, Johan ^j   Rabou, Patrick ^a   Rigal, Florence ^j   Roelfsema, Ronald ^j   Rousset, Gérard ^g   Saisse, Michel ^c   Schmid, Hans Martin ^k   Stadler, Eric ^a   Thalmann, Christian ^k   Turatto, Massimo ^f   Udry, Stéphane ^d   Vakili, Farrokh ^e   Waters, Rens ^l   more..

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^f INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^h EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

ⁱ ONERA   (France)

^j ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^k ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^l UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

more..

Author keywords

Coronagraphy; Dual imaging; Extrasolar planets; Extreme adaptive optics; Polarimetry; Spectral imaging

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; POLARIMETERS; SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; STARS;

ANGULAR SEPARATION; CORONAGRAPHY; DUAL IMAGING; EXTREME ADAPTIVE OPTICS; PLANETARY SYSTEM; SCIENCE OBJECTIVES; SPECTRAL CHARACTERIZATION; SPECTRAL IMAGING;

EXTRASOLAR PLANETS;

EID: 66349097494     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.790120     Document Type: Conference Paper

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