Second-Earth Imager for TMT (SEIT): A proposal and concept description

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7735, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Matsuo, Taro ^a   Tamura, Motohide ^a  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

stars: planetary system; techniques: high angular resolution

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT DESCRIPTION; DIRECT DETECTION; GROUND-BASED TELESCOPES; INTERFEROMETRIC TECHNIQUES; LARGE APERTURE; SIMULATION RESULT; SKY BACKGROUND; STARS: PLANETARY SYSTEM; STATIC ABERRATIONS; TECHNIQUES: HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION; THIRTY METER TELESCOPE;

INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PLANETS; SPECKLE;

STARS;

EID: 78149233443     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.858323     Document Type: Conference Paper

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