Imaging Earth-like planets with Extremely Large Telescopes

Details Imaging Earth-like planets with Extremely Large Telescopes Imaging Earth-like planets with Extremely Large Telescopes

2005-07-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0507512v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20053026

We investigate the possiblity to detect Earth-like planets, in the visible and the near infrared domains, with ground based Extremely Large Telescopes equipped with adaptive systems capable of providing high Strehl ratios. From a detailed analysis of the speckle noise, we derive analytical expressions of the signal to noise ratio on the planet flux, for direct and differential imaging, in the presence of the speckle noise and the photon noise of the residual stellar halo. We find that a 100m telescope would detect an Earth at a distance of 10pc, with a signal to noise ratio of 5, in an integration time of 12 hours. This requires to control the instrumental aberrations with a precision better than 1 nanometer rms, and to reach an image dynamics of $1.2{\rm x}10^{6}$ at $0\farcs 1$ radius. Under the same conditions, a telescope of 30m would require a dynamics of $1.3{\rm x}10^{7}$ for a positive detection

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