Mapping the observable sky for a remote occulter working with ground-based telescopes

Eliad Peretz; John Mather; Sara Seager; Richard Slonaker; Stuart Shaklan; Phil Willems; Sergei Hildebrant

doi:10.1117/12.2528756

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17 September 2019 Mapping the observable sky for a remote occulter working with ground-based telescopes

Eliad Peretz, John Mather, Sara Seager, Richard Slonaker, Stuart Shaklan, Phil Willems, Sergei Hildebrant

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Proceedings Volume 11117, Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets IX; 111170S (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2528756
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2019, San Diego, California, United States

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The Remote Occulter (Orbiting Starshade) is a proposed 100-meter class starshade working with a ground-based telescope, designed for visible-band imaging and spectroscopy of temperate planets around sun-like stars. With advanced adaptive optics and the largest telescopes like the 39 m ELT, it would enable the study of planetary systems and a wide variety of exoplanets. In this paper, we describe the geometrical constraints and establish which parts of the sky are observable.

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Eliad Peretz, John Mather, Sara Seager, Richard Slonaker, Stuart Shaklan, Phil Willems, and Sergei Hildebrant "Mapping the observable sky for a remote occulter working with ground-based telescopes", Proc. SPIE 11117, Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets IX, 111170S (17 September 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2528756

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