Extrasolar planet detection

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Feb 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994ap%26ss.212..369k&link_type=abstract

Astrophysics and Space Science, vol. 212, nos. 1-2, p. 369-383

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Extrasolar Planets, Infrared Interferometers, Signal Processing, Adaptive Optics, Apertures, Detection, Infrared Imagery, Infrared Telescopes

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This paper discusses the concept of extrasolar planet detection using a large-aperture infared imaging telescope. Coronagraphic stellar apodization techniques are less efficient at infrared wavelengths compared to the visible, as a result of practical limitations on aperture dimensions, thus necessitating additional starlight suppression to make planet detection feasible in this spectral domain. We have been investigating the use of rotational shearing interferometry to provide up to three orders of magnitude of starlight suppression over broad spectral bandwidths. We present a theoretical analysis of the system performance requirements needed to make this a viable instrument for planet detection, including specifications on the interferometer design and telescope aperture characteristics. The concept of using rotational shearing interferometry as a wavefront error detector, thus providing a signal that can be used to adaptively correct the wavefront, will be discussed. We also present the status of laboratory studies of on-axis source suppression using a recently constructed rotational shearing interferometer that currently operates in the visible.

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