NGST & Extrasolar Planets

10s

Jupiter

Earth

“Sun”

Angel & Woolf 1998, in Science with the NGST, ASP, 133, 172

ldiff=1 mm

• Control of primary only:

  • Jupiter at 10 < l < 20 mm
  • Earth at l < 10 mm

“Solar System" at 8 pc,

6m primary

30nm

• Active wavefront correction to 30 nm rms
  • Direct detection of Jupiter l > 0.4 mm

l (mm)

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