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The Extra-Solar Planet Imager (ESPI)

Year: 2002

Type: preprint

Abstract: ESPI has been proposed for direct imaging and spectral analysis of giant planets orbiting solar-type stars. ESPI extends the concept suggested by Nisenson and Papaliolios (2001) for a square aperture apodized telescope that has sufficient dynamic range to directly detect exo-planets. With a 1.5 M square mirror, ESPI can deliver high dynamic range imagery as close as 0.3 arcseconds to bright sources, permitting a sensitive search for exoplanets around nearby stars and a study of their characteristics in reflected light.

Source: arXiv (Cornell University)

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0210046

Authors: Nisenson, P., Melnick, G. J., Geary, J., Holman, M., Korzennik, S. G., Noyes, R. W., Papaliolios, C., Sasselov, D. D., Fischer, D., Gezari, D., Lyon, R. G., Gonsalves, R., Hardesty, C., Harwit, M., Marley, M. S., Neufeld, D. A., Ridgway, S. T.

Institution: Laboratoire d’études spatiales et d’instrumentation en astrophysique

Language: English

Topic: Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing

Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2018306312

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