Sensitivity analysis of the new worlds starshade's shadow

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7010, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Arenberg, Jonathan W ^b   Shipley, Ann ^b   Cash, Webster ^b   Glassman, Tiffany ^a   Lo, Amy ^a  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffraction; Hypergaussian apodization; New worlds observer; Sensitivity analysis; Tolerance analysis

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION PROBLEM; HYPERGAUSSIAN APODIZATION; NEW WORLDS OBSERVER; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; STATIC ERROR; STATISTICAL APPROACH; TOLERANCE ANALYSIS; UNCORRELATED ERRORS;

DIFFRACTION; ERRORS; FITS AND TOLERANCES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 70349497488     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789468     Document Type: Conference Paper

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