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    A vortex coronagraph is a type of optical instrument for telescopes that blocks out the glare of bright objects (like stars) so that smaller objects near...
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    optical vortex coronagraph based on a phase ramp directly etched in a dielectric material, like fused silica. the vector(ial) vortex coronagraph employs...
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    2010 a team from NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory demonstrated that a vortex coronagraph could enable small telescopes to directly image planets. They did...
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    star is so bright. Progress has been made in creating an optical vortex coronagraph to directly observe planets with too low a contrast ratio to their...
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    a team from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory demonstrated that a vortex coronagraph could enable small scopes to directly image planets. The Hale had...
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    three known planets of the star HR8799, as imaged by the Hale Telescope. The light from the central star was blanked out by a vector vortex coronagraph....
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    a team from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory demonstrated that a vortex coronagraph could enable small scopes to directly image planets. They did this...
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    data, and new radial velocity measurements from Keck/NIRC2 Ms-band vortex coronagraph images, a lower absolute mass of 0.65 times that of Jupiter, at an...
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  • Palacios, David M.; Swartzlander, Grover A. Jr. (2005). "Optical Vortex Coronagraph". Optics Letters. 30 (24): 3308–10. Bibcode:2005OptL...30.3308F. doi:10...
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    Indirect and direct observation methods such as radial velocity and coronagraphs can give envelope estimates of exoplanet parameters such as mass, planetary...
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    several other types of coronagraph: Vortex, Four-Quadrant Phase Mask and 8-Octant Phase Mask versions, and a shaped pupil coronagraph. The phase I of construction...
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    satellite named Aditya-L1 on 2 September 2023. Its main instrument will be a coronagraph for studying the dynamics of the solar corona. Unsolved problem in astronomy:...
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  • (TBD) PSLV-XL C62 Satish Dhawan ISRO PROBA-3 Coronagraph ESA Highly elliptical Solar observatory Coronagraph   PROBA-3 Occulter ESA Highly elliptical Solar...
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    utilizes the so-called vortex nulling properties of its Fizeau interferometry. These optics create what is called a coronagraph from the telescope primary...
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