A starshade for JWST: Science goals and optimization

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7440, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Soummer, Rémi ^a   Cash, Webster ^b   Brown, Robert A ^a   Jordan, Ian ^a,g   Roberge, Aki ^c   Glassman, Tiffany ^f   Lo, Amy ^f   Seager, Sara ^d   Pueyo, Laurent ^e  

^a NASA Hubble Fellowship Program   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^g Advanced Air Traffic Management Solutions   (United States)

Author keywords

coronagraphy; earth like; exoplanets; extrasolar; JWST; occulter; starshade

Indexed keywords

CORONAGRAPHY; EARTH-LIKE; EXO-PLANETS; EXTRASOLAR; JWST; OCCULTER; STARSHADE;

INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTIMIZATION; PLANETS; SPACE TELESCOPES;

STARS;

EID: 73949141034     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.826702     Document Type: Conference Paper

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