A Nulling Wide Field Imager for Exoplanets Detection and General Astrophysics

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2002-05-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0205523v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

18 pages, 16 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20020712

We present a solution to obtain a high-resolution image of a wide field with the central source removed by destructive interference. The wide-field image is created by aperture synthesis with a rotating sparse array of telescopes in space. Nulling of the central source is achieved using a phase-mask coronagraph. The full (u,v) plane coverage delivered by the 60m, six 3-meter telescope array is particularly well-suited for the detection and characterization of exoplanets in the infrared (DARWIN and Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) missions) as well as for other generic science observations. Detection (S/N=10) of an Earth-like planet is achieved in less than 10 hours with a 1 micron bandwidth at 10 micron.

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