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|Title: ||Progress in testing exo-planet signal extraction on the TPF-I Planet Detection Testbed|
|Authors: ||Martin, Stefan R.|
Loya, Frank M.
|Keywords: ||Terrestrial Planet Finder|
|Issue Date: ||24-May-2006 |
|Publisher: ||Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2006.|
|Citation: ||SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, Orlando, Florida, May 24-30, 2006.|
|Abstract: ||The TPF Interferometer (TPF-I) concept is being studied at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the TPF-I Planet Detection Testbed has been developed to simulate the detection process for an earthlike planet orbiting a star within about 15 pc. The testbed combines four beams of infrared light simulating the operation of a dual chopped Bracewell interferometer observing a star and a faint planet. This paper describes the results obtained this year including nulling of the starlight on four input beams at contrast ratios up to 250,000 to 1, and detection of faint planet signals at contrast ratios with the star of 2 million to 1.|
|Appears in Collections:||JPL TRS 1992+|
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