Ground-based imaging of extrasolar planets using adaptive optics

Details Ground-based imaging of extrasolar planets using adaptive optics Ground-based imaging of extrasolar planets using adaptive optics

Mar 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994natur.368..203a&link_type=abstract

Nature, Volume 368, Issue 6468, pp. 203-207 (1994).

Physics

Optics

86

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The detection of extrasolar planets by direct imaging presents an extraordinary technical challenge. They must be identified against background light scattered from a star close by and about a billion times brighter. It has been supposed that a near-perfect space telescope would be required to avoid atmospheric blurring. But by using adaptive optics operating at fundamental performance limits, the new generation of large ground-based telescopes has the potential to detect planets orbiting nearby stars.

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