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| Paper: |
The Potential of High Contrast Coronagraphy |
| Volume: |
450, Molecules in the Atmospheres of Extrasolar Planets |
| Page: |
173 |
| Authors: |
Serabyn, E. |
| Abstract: |
The direct detection of faint companions near much brighter stars
requires the development of very high-contrast, small field-of-view
detection techniques, and the past decade has seen remarkable
conceptual and instrumental progress in this area. New coronagraphic
techniques are being developed and deployed, as are extreme adaptive
optics (ExAO) systems that will enable the advantageous exploitation
of these new techniques. This paper provides a short overview of
promising high contrast coronagraphic techniques, as well as recent
examples of ExAO coronagraphy and transit measurements obtained with
the ExAO-level “well-corrected subaperture'' at Palomar. |
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