Pointing effects and their consequences for Spitzer IRAC exoplanet observations

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8448, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Grillmair, Carl J ^a   Carey, Sean J ^a   Stauffer, John R ^a   Fisher, Mark E ^b   Olds, Ryan ^b   Ingalls, James G ^a   Krick, Jessica E ^a   Glaccum, William J ^a   Laine, Seppo ^a   Lowrance, Patrick J ^a   Surace, Jason A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Exoplanets; Spitzer space telescope

Indexed keywords

EXO-PLANETS; EXOPLANET; LONG DURATION; LOW AND HIGH FREQUENCIES; MITIGATION TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY VARIATION; SMALL SCALE; SPITZER; SPITZER SPACE TELESCOPE;

OBSERVATORIES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BUILDINGS;

EID: 84871706771     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.927191     Document Type: Conference Paper

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