The gemini NICI planet-finding campaign

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7736, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Liu, Michael C ^a   Wahhaj, Zahed ^a   Biller, Beth A ^a   Nielsen, Eric L ^b   Chun, Mark ^a   Close, Laird M ^b   Ftaclas, Christ ^a   Hartung, Markus ^c   Hayward, Thomas L ^c   Clarke, Fraser ^d   Reid, I Neill ^e   Shkolnik, Evgenya L ^f   Tecza, Matthias ^d   Thatte, Niranjan ^d   Alencar, Silvia ^g   Artymowicz, Pawel ^h   Boss, Alan ^e   Burrows, Adam ⁱ   De Gouveia Dal Pino, Elisabethe ^j   Gregorio Hetem, Jane ^j   Ida, Shigeru ^k   Kuchner, Marc J ^l   Lin, Douglas ^m   Toomey, Douglas ^m   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e STScI   (United States)

^f GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

ⁱ PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^k NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^m Mauna Kea Infrared LLC   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Brown dwarfs; Extrasolar planets; High contrast imaging; Near IR instrumentation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS; BROWN DWARFS; DUAL CHANNEL; EXTRA SOLAR PLANETS; GAS-GIANT PLANETS; GROUND BASED; HIGH CONTRAST IMAGING; IMAGING SURVEYS; LARGE TELESCOPES; NEAR INFRARED; NEAR-IR; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; SPACE-BASED; TARGET SELECTION; YOUNG STARS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; DATA PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; STARS;

PLANETS;

EID: 77957848901     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.858358     Document Type: Conference Paper

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