Direct imaging and spectroscopy of habitable planets using JWST and a starshade

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7731, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Soummer, Rémi ^a   Valenti, Jeff ^a   Brown, Robert A ^a   Seager, Sara ^b   Tumlinson, Jason ^a   Cash, Webster ^c   Jordan, Ian ^a,g   Postman, Marc ^a   Mountain, Matt ^a   Glassman, Tiffany ^f   Pueyo, Laurent ^e   Roberge, Aki ^d  

^a STScI   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^g Computer Sciences Corporation ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Coronagraphy; Earth like; Exoplanets; Extrasolar; JWST; Occulter; Starshade

Indexed keywords

CORONAGRAPHY; EARTH-LIKE; EXO-PLANETS; EXTRASOLAR; JWST; OCCULTER; STARSHADE;

INSTRUMENTS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OXYGEN; PLANETS; SPACE APPLICATIONS;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 77958139439     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.858347     Document Type: Conference Paper

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