EPOL: The exoplanet polarimeter for EPICS at the E-ELT

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7735, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Keller, Christoph U ^a   Schmid, Hans Martin ^b   Venema, Lars B ^c   Hanenburg, Hiddo ^c   Jager, Rieks ^d   Kasper, Markus ^e   Martinez, Patrice ^e   Rigal, Florence ^c   Rodenhuis, Michiel ^a   Roelfsema, Ronald ^c   Snik, Frans ^a   Verinaud, Christophe ^f   Yaitskova, Natalia ^e  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^d SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^e EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^f LABORATOIRE D ASTROPHYSIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

E ELT; exoplanets; polarimetry

Indexed keywords

DUAL-BEAM; E-ELT; EXO-PLANETS; EXOPLANET; EXTREME ADAPTIVE OPTICS; IMAGING CAMERA; IMAGING POLARIMETER; IMAGING POLARIMETRY; INTEGRAL FIELD UNIT; LINEARLY POLARIZED; LINEARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; POLARIMETRY; TWO BEAMS; WAVELENGTH BAND;

ASTRONOMY; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; ELLIPSOMETRY; INSTRUMENTS;

POLARIMETERS;

EID: 77957831386     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857626     Document Type: Conference Paper

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