The Extra-Solar Planet Imager (ESPI)

Details The Extra-Solar Planet Imager (ESPI) The Extra-Solar Planet Imager (ESPI)

2002-10-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0210046v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

To be published in P.A.S.P. Proceedings of Carnegie Meeting on Scientific Frontiers in Research on Extrasolar Planets, 4 pages

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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.

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