System study of EPICS, the exoplanets imager for the E-ELT

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7736, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Vérinaud, Christophe ^a   Kasper, Markus ^b   Beuzit, Jean Luc ^a   Gratton, Raffaele G ^c   Mesa, Dino ^c   Aller Carpentier, Emmanuel ^b   Fedrigo, Enrico ^b   Abe, Lyu ^d   Baudoz, Pierre ^e   Boccaletti, Anthony ^e   Bonavita, Mariangela ^b   Dohlen, Kjetil ^f   Hubin, Norbert ^b   Kerber, Florian ^b   Korkiakoski, Visa ^a   Antichi, Jacopo ^a   Martinez, Patrice ^b   Rabou, Patrick ^a   Roelfsema, Ronald ^g   Schmid, Hans Martin ^h   Thatte, Niranjan ⁱ   Salter, Graeme ⁱ   Tecza, Matthias ⁱ   Venema, Lars ^g   Hanenburg, Hiddo ^g   Jager, Rieks ^g   Yaitskova, Natalia ^b   Preis, Olivier ^a   Orecchia, Mélanie ^a   Stadler, Eric ^a   more..

^a LABORATOIRE D ASTROPHYSIQUE   (France)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^c INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^f AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^g ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^h ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exoplanets; Extreme adaptive optics; Extremely large telescope; High contrast imaging

Indexed keywords

COMMON PATH; DIRECT IMAGING; EXO-PLANETS; EXTREME ADAPTIVE OPTICS; EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES; FRONT PROPAGATION; GAS GIANT; HIGH CONTRAST IMAGING; HIGH ORDER; INSTRUMENTAL CONTRAST; LIGHT WAVE; OPTICAL ELEMENTS; POLARIZATION DEPENDENCY; POLYCHROMATIC WAVES; POST PROCESSING; QUASI-STATIC; REFLECTED LIGHT; SUPPRESSION SYSTEMS; SYSTEM STUDY;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPECKLE;

LIGHT;

EID: 77957847684     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857096     Document Type: Conference Paper

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