OHP Preprint No. 92 : Extra-solar planets


Resolved imaging of extra-solar planets with future 10-100km optical interferometric arrays

Antoine Labeyrie

Collège de France & Observatoire de Haute Provence
04870 Saint Michel l'Observatoire, France
(labeyrie@obshpx.obs-hp.fr)


Abstract
In recent years interferometric arrays of optical telescopes have reached sizes of the order of 100m, but they have yet to produce high-resolution images. The analysis of image formation now shows that such images are obtainable directly in the recombined focal plane, if there are enough telescopes. Resolved images of extra-solar planets are in principle obtainable with 10km ground-based arrays.


(Astronomy and Astrophysics, in press)

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