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Detection of Earth-like planets around nearby stars using a petal-shaped occulter

Webster Cash

Nature 442, 51-53(6 July 2006)

doi:10.1038/nature04930

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Figure 1

Schematic showing how a starshade in position against a nearby star might appear.

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Figure 2

Achieved stellar suppression.

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Seeing Earth-like planets.

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Table 1

Characteristics of the occulter compared to the coronagraph

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