Some conditions to detect extra-solar planets with rotational shearing interferometer

Maximiliano Galán; Marija Strojnik; Gonzalo Páez

doi:10.1117/12.674972

7 September 2006 Some conditions to detect extra-solar planets with rotational shearing interferometer

Maximiliano Galán, Marija Strojnik, Gonzalo Páez

Proceedings Volume 6307, Unconventional Imaging II; 63070M (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.674972
Event: SPIE Optics + Photonics, 2006, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We develop some conditions to detect extra-solar planets with rotational shearing interferometer. We consider that the star is not on the interferometer axis. In addition, we include an arbitrary optical path difference between the interferometer arms. Previously, we showed that the light from the star may be cancelled out when the OPD is λ/2. We obtain analytic expressions for these conditions. We simulate several incidance distributions of the star-planet system. It is of utter most importance to align the interferometer axis with the host star, to the precision of 5 μrad.

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Maximiliano Galán, Marija Strojnik, and Gonzalo Páez "Some conditions to detect extra-solar planets with rotational shearing interferometer", Proc. SPIE 6307, Unconventional Imaging II, 63070M (7 September 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.674972

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