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A nulling coronagraph for TPF-C

Shao et al., 2006

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17000078459874565859
Author
Shao M
Levine B
Wallace J
Orton G
Schmidtlin E
Lane B
Seager S
Tolls V
Lyon R
Samuele R
Tenerelli D
Woodruff R
Ge J
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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation I: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter

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The nulling coronagraph is one of 5 instrument concepts selected by NASA for study for potential use in the TPF-C mission. This concept for extreme starlight suppression has two major components, a nulling interferometer to suppress the starlight to~ 10-10 per airy spot …
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