An image of an exoplanet separated by two diffraction beamwidths from a star

Nature

Volumn 464, Issue 7291, 2010, Pages 1018-1020

  Serabyn, E ^a   Mawet, D ^a   Burruss, R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CORONA; IMAGING METHOD; LIGHT SCATTERING; PLANET; SPECKLE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; NOISE; OPTICS; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 77951138394     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09007     Document Type: Article

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