Design reference mission construction for planet finders

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7010, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Savransky, Dmitry ^a   Kasdin, N Jeremy ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drm; Occulters; Planet finding

Indexed keywords

DESIGN REFERENCE MISSIONS; DIRECT DETECTION; DRM; EXTRA SOLAR PLANETS; HYBRID DESIGN; OCCULTERS; OPTIMAL INTEGRATION TIME; PLANET FINDERS; SPACE-BORNE;

ALARM SYSTEMS; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PLANETS; SPACE TELESCOPES;

SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES;

EID: 70349525369     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789168     Document Type: Conference Paper

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