High-contrast observations with slicer-based integral field spectrographs 1: Simulations

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7735, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Salter, Graeme S ^a   Thatte, Niranjan A ^a   Tecza, Mathias ^a   Clarke, Fraser ^a   Verinaud, Christophe ^b   Kasper, Markus E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b LAOG   (France)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

adaptive optics; exoplanets; High contrast imaging; integral field spectrographs; speckle noise

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL CORE; EXO-PLANETS; FIELD OF VIEWS; FOCAL PLANE; HIGH CONTRAST; HIGH CONTRAST IMAGING; IF THERE ARE; INTEGRAL FIELD SPECTROGRAPH; MAXIMUM INTENSITIES; PHASE A; SPECKLE NOISE; IMAGE-SLICERS; SPECTRAL DECONVOLUTION;

ASTRONOMY; INSTRUMENTS; SPECKLE; EQUIPMENT TESTING; SPECTROGRAPHS;

SPECTROGRAPHS; INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 77957834666     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857383     Document Type: Conference Paper

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