Imaging planets about other stars with UMBRAS: Target acquisition and station keeping

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4087, Issue , 2004, Pages 993-1003

  Hart, Helen M ^a   Jordan, Ian J ^a   Schultz, Alfred B ^a   Hershey, John L ^a   Kochte, Mark ^a   Hamilton, Forrest C ^a   Fraquelli, Dorothy A ^a   Schroeder, Daniel J ^b   Bruhweiler, Fred ^c   Disanti, Mike A ^c   Miskey, Cherie L ^c   Johnson, Bruce ^d   Fadali, M S ^d   Rodrigue, Melodi ^d   Cheng, K P ^e   Clark, R ^f  

^a STScI   (United States)

^b BELOIT COLLEGE   (United States)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f not available   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronagraphy; Extrasolar planets; Free flying occulter; UMBRAS

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SOLAR ENERGY; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE PLATFORMS;

CORONAGRAPHY; FREE FLYING OCCULTER; HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPES; POSITION INFORMATION; SCIENCE REQUIREMENTS; SPACE MISSION DESIGN; SPACE-BASED TELESCOPES; UMBRAS;

EXTRASOLAR PLANETS;

EID: 84875476563     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.406339     Document Type: Conference Paper

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