Occulting Ozone Observatory science overview

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7731, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Savransky, Dmitry ^a   Spergel, David N ^a   Kasdin, N Jeremy ^a   Cady, Eric J ^a   Lisman, P Douglas ^b   Pravdo, Steven H ^b   Shaklan, Stuart B ^b   Fujii, Yuka ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Exoplanets; Mission simulation; Occulters

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OZONE; EARTH-LIKE PLANETS; EXO-PLANETS; EXTRA SOLAR PLANETS; GAS GIANT; MISSION DESIGN; MISSION SIMULATION; OCCULTERS; ORBITAL ELEMENT; SPIN-ROTATIONS; SURFACE COMPOSITIONS; TRADE-STUDY;

ASTROPHYSICS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; BUILDINGS; INSTRUMENTS; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; METHANE; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OZONE; PHOTOMETRY; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPIN DYNAMICS;

PLANETS;

EID: 77958143993     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857375     Document Type: Conference Paper

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