Science performance of the Pupil-mapping Exoplanet Coronagraphic Observer (PECO)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7440, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Cahoy, Kerri ^a   Guyon, Olivier ^b   Schneider, Glenn ^b   Marley, Mark ^a   Belikov, Ruslan ^a   Meyer, Michael ^b   Ridgway, Stephen ^c   Traub, Wesley ^d   Woolf, Neville ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

ASMCS; coronagraph; exoplanet; optical astronomy; PECO; PIAA; telescope, apodization

Indexed keywords

ASMCS; CORONAGRAPH; EXOPLANET; OPTICAL ASTRONOMY; PECO; PIAA;

ASTRONOMY; INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL DESIGN; PLANETS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 78751624981     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.826608     Document Type: Conference Paper

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