Orbit and scheduling optimization of a remote occulter working with extremely large telescopes (Conference Presentation)

Eliad Peretz, John C. Mather, Stuart B. Shaklan
2019 Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets IX  
The Remote Occulter (Orbiting Starshade) is a proposed 100-meter class starshade working with a ground-based telescope, designed for visible-band imaging and spectroscopy of temperate planets around sun-like stars. With advanced adaptive optics and the largest telescopes like the 39 m ELT, it would enable the study of planetary systems and a wide variety of exoplanets. In this paper, we describe the geometrical constraints and establish which parts of the sky are observable.
doi:10.1117/12.2528756 fatcat:iku56hed6jgvxpd2nclgv4v3ku