Resolved imaging of extra-solar planets with future 10-100km optical interferometric arrays.
Abstract
In the recent years, interferometric arrays of optical telescopes have reached sizes of the order of 100 m, but they have yet to produce high-resolution images. The analysis of image formation now shows that such images are theoretically obtainable directly in the recombined focal plane, if there are enough telescopes. Resolved images of extra-solar planets are in principle obtainable with 10 km ground-based arrays.
- Publication:
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Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series
- Pub Date:
- September 1996
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/9602093
- Bibcode:
- 1996A&AS..118..517L
- Keywords:
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- TECHNIQUES: INTERFEROMETRIC PLANETARY SYSTEMS;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 5 figures. Paper available at http://www.obs-hp.fr/www/preprints/pp92/pp92.html