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Detecting extrasolar planets with sparse aperture masking

Date

Authors

Ireland, Michael

Publisher

SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Abstract

Extrasolar planets are directly detected most easily when they are young and can have contrasts only a few hundred times fainter than their host stars at near- and mid- infrared wavelengths. However, planets and other solar-system scale structures around

Keywords

Keywords: Diffraction limits; Disk systems; Extra solar planets; Extrasolar planet detection; Host-stars; Infrared wavelengths; Long-baseline interferometry; Solar type stars; Sparse aperture; Star-forming region; Diffraction; Imaging techniques; Interferometry; St Aperture mask interferometry; Extrasolar planets; Sparse aperture masking

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/67205

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Type

Conference paper

DOI

10.1117/12.928884

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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