A Method to Image Extrasolar Planets with Polarized Light

Details A Method to Image Extrasolar Planets with Polarized Light A Method to Image Extrasolar Planets with Polarized Light

Dec 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003pasp..115.1363b&link_type=abstract

The Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 115, Issue 814, pp. 1363-1366.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Instrumentation: Miscellaneous, Instrumentation: Polarimeters, Techniques: Interferometric, Techniques: Miscellaneous, Techniques: Polarimetric

Scientific paper

The light from extrasolar planets is expected to be partially polarized. The image of an extrasolar planet can be obtained from its polarized light with a polarization interferometric nulling coronagraph, where a four-quadrant polarization mask is used. A two-channel stellar coronagraph allows the detection of extrasolar planets by subtracting scattered light from its host star. Laboratory experiments confirm that faint extrasolar planets can be imaged with the two-channel polarization nulling stellar coronagraph.

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