High-contrast coronagraphic performance of NGST in the thermal IR
- 4 March 2003
- proceedings article
- Published by SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
- Vol. 4850, 556-564
- https://doi.org/10.1117/12.461613
Abstract
Numerical simulations have been carried out to assess the opportunity to detect extrasolar planets with MIRI: the mid-IR instrument of NGST. Several coronagraphs and telescope designs have been investigated. As a result, we found that very young planets (50Myr) as well as old planets (5Gyr) can be imaged in the thermal-IR (5μm to 20μm) down to a few Jupiter masses if an appropriate high-contrast coronagraph is in used. Promising results of numerical simulations are presented.Keywords
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