ACCESS - A NASA mission concept study of an actively-corrected coronagraph for exoplanet system studies

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7010, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Trauger, John ^a   Stapelfeldt, Karl ^a   Traub, Wesley ^a   Henry, Curt ^a   Krist, John ^a   Mawet, Dimitri ^a   Moody, Dwight ^a   Park, Peggy ^a   Pueyo, Laurent ^a   Serabyn, Eugene ^a   Shaklan, Stuart ^a   Guyon, Olivier ^b,c   Kasdin, Jeremy ^d   Spergel, David ^d   Vanderbei, Robert ^d   Belikov, Ruslan ^e   Marcy, Geoff ^f   Brown, Robert A ^g   Schneider, Jean ^h   Woodgate, Bruce ⁱ   Matthews, Gary ^j   Egerman, Robert ^j   Polidan, Ronald ^k   Lillie, Chuck ^k   Ealey, Mark ^l   Price, Thomas ^l   more..

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g STScI   (United States)

^h OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

ⁱ NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^j ITT   (United States)

^k NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^l Northrop Grumman Xinetics   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Active optics; Coronagraphs; Exoplanets; Space astronomy

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE OPTICS; CORONAGRAPHS; DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; EXOPLANET; EXOPLANETS; GIANT PLANETS; INSTRUMENT COMPLEXITY; LEVEL PLAYING FIELDS; MISSION COSTS; NASA MISSIONS; SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING; SPACE ASTRONOMY; SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH; SYSTEM STUDY; THROUGHPUT EFFICIENCY; WAVEFRONT CORRECTION; WAVEFRONT ERRORS; WORKING ANGLE;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; INSTRUMENT ERRORS; NASA; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE OPTICS; SPACE TELESCOPES; WAVEFRONTS;

SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES;

EID: 70349491215     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789119     Document Type: Conference Paper

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