Error budgeting and tolerancing of starshades for exoplanet detection

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7731, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Shaklan, Stuart B ^a   Noecker, M Charley ^b   Glassman, Tiffany ^c   Lo, Amy S ^c   Dumont, Philip J ^a   Kasdin, N Jeremy ^d   Cady, Eric J ^d   Vanderbei, Robert ^d   Lawson, Peter R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

^c NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Error budgets; Exoplanets; Starshades; Tolerancing

Indexed keywords

EARTH-LIKE PLANETS; ERROR BUDGETING; ERROR BUDGETS; EXO-PLANETS; EXOPLANET DETECTION; FLOWER-LIKE; HOST-STARS; IMAGE PLANE; INDEPENDENT MODEL; OPTICAL SENSITIVITY; REFLECTED LIGHT; SCATTERED LIGHT; STARSHADES; TOLERANCING; WORKING ANGLE;

BUDGET CONTROL; ERROR DETECTION; INSTRUMENTS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SPACE TELESCOPES;

EARTH (PLANET);

EID: 77958148461     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857591     Document Type: Conference Paper

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