Null Stellar Intensity Interferometry
Abstract
Since the discovery of the first exoplanet in 1989, though over 850 candidates have been verified (Schneider 2012), few are similar to our Earth in terms of mass and size. Hence here we would like to propose the revival and improvement of optical intensity interferometry to achieve sub-milliarcsecond resolution, which promises also to be less sensitive to weather conditions, light pollution and optomechanical alignments, yet only requiring baselines <100m.
- Publication:
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Formation, Detection, and Characterization of Extrasolar Habitable Planets
- Pub Date:
- April 2014
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921313013318
- Bibcode:
- 2014IAUS..293..420T
- Keywords:
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- exoplanet;
- g2;
- intensity interferometry;
- photon bunching;
- second order correlation