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Adaptive Optics for Direct Detection of Extrasolar Planets [electronic resource] : The Gemini Planet Imager

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Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 2007.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States. Department of Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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The direct detection of photons emitted or reflected by extrasolar planets, spatially resolved from their parent star, is a major frontier in the study of other solar systems. Direct detection will provide statistical information on planets in 5-50 AU orbits, inaccessible to current Doppler searches, and allow spectral characterization of radius, temperature, surface gravity, and perhaps composition. Achieving this will require new dedicated high-contrast instruments. One such system under construction is the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI.) This combines a high-order/high-speed adaptive optics system to control wavefront errors from the Earth's atmosphere, an advanced coronagraph to block diffraction, ultrasmooth optics, a precision infrared interferometer to measure and correct systematic errors, and a integral field spectrograph/polarimeter to image and characterize target planetary systems. We predict that GPI will be able to detect planets with brightness less than 10⁻⁷ of their parent star, sufficient to observe warm self-luminous planets around a large population of targets.
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E 1.99:ucrl-jrnl-230274
ucrl-jrnl-230274
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Published through SciTech Connect.
04/24/2007.
"ucrl-jrnl-230274"
Comptes rendus - Physique, vol. 8, no. 3-4, April 1, 2007, pp. 365-373 8 3-4 FT
Wallace, J K; Graham, J; Palmer, D; Doyon, R; Bauman, B; Poyneer, L; Veran, J; Gavel, D; Macintosh, B; Larkin, J; Erikson, D; Sivaramakrishnan, A; Oppenheimer, B; Saddlemyer, L; Soummer, R.
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W-7405-ENG-48
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