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| Paper: |
Optimizing Coronagraphic Surveys for Planets |
| Volume: |
398, Extreme Solar Systems |
| Page: |
467 |
| Authors: |
Agol, E. |
| Abstract: |
Recent laboratory experiments have demonstrated extremely high contrast imaging near a bright point source (Trauger & Traub 2007), a prerequisite for coronagraphic surveys for extrasolar planets with TPF and precursor telescopes. As the technology is now maturing, the question of which stars to target and how to optimize a direct imaging planet search needs to be addressed, so I discuss scaling relations and analytic estimates for how to optimize the number of planets detected (not necessarily in the habitable zone), taking into account noise from zodiacal light, exo-zodiacal light, and speckle noise, as well as the diversity among stellar and planetary systems. |
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