The Extra-Solar Planet Imager (ESPI)
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
ESPI has been proposed for direct imaging and spectral analysis of giant planets orbiting solar-type stars. ESPI extends the concept suggested by Nisenson and Papaliolios (2001) for a square aperture apodized telescope that has sufficient dynamic range to directly detect exo-planets. With a 1.5 M square mirror, ESPI can deliver high dynamic range imagery as close as 0.3 arcseconds to bright sources, permitting a sensitive search for exoplanets around nearby stars and a study of their characteristics in reflected light.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0210046,
title = {The Extra-Solar Planet Imager (ESPI)},
author = {P. Nisenson and G. J. Melnick and J. Geary and M. Holman and S. G. Korzennik and R. W. Noyes and C. Papaliolios and D. D. Sasselov and D. Fischer and D. Gezari and R. G. Lyon and R. Gonsalves and C. Hardesty and M. Harwit and M. S. Marley and D. A. Neufeld and S. T. Ridgway},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0210046},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
To be published in P.A.S.P. Proceedings of Carnegie Meeting on Scientific Frontiers in Research on Extrasolar Planets, 4 pages, 3 figures