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Eliminating Poisson's Spot with Linear Programming
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2009
Operations Research and Cyber-Infrastructure
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A leading design concept for NASA's upcoming planet-finding space telescope involves placing an occulter 72, 000 km in front of a 4-m telescope. The purpose of the occulter is to block the bright starlight thereby enabling the telescope to take pictures of planets orbiting the blocked star. Unfortunately, diffraction effects prevent a simple circular occulter from providing a sufficiently dark shadow-a specially shaped occulter is required. In this paper, I explain how to reduce this
doi:10.1007/978-0-387-88843-9_24
fatcat:jcmjgvknyrfjvehluizrgwmu7y