Overview
- Successfully addresses technically challenging topics on a highly visible field
- Author has been recognized with two Boston University Awards and invited to an exclusive workshop on exoplanet technology held at Caltech
- Provides pioneering contributions to the imaging and characterization of exoplanets, one of the most fundamentals quests of modern astrophysics
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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About this book
The Monolithic Achromatic Nulling Interference Coronagraph (MANIC) Brian Hicks describe in this thesis the first optic of its kind. He has taken the multiple optical element concept described in earlier works from theory to a flyable monolithic optic. Brian has advanced the state of the art in nulling interferometers by improving optical stability and robustness. Following application of the fabrication method described in this work, the design of MANIC also allows for broader band performance at higher contrast than that achieved with the PICTURE nulling interferometer.
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About the author
In addition to participating in a number of design studies for satellites-, balloon- and rocket-borne imaging and spectroscopic instruments, Dr. Hicks has played major roles in the design and fabrication of high-contrast, high-resolution imagining and measurement instrumentation for the study of exoplanets and their morphological environments. A highlight amongst these instruments was the NASA-funded Planetary Imaging Concept Testbed Using a Sounding Rocket (PICTURE) project, which he helped to launch through the support of his graduate advisor, Dr. Supriya Chakrabati, in October 2011.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nulling Interferometers for Space-based High-Contrast Visible Imaging and Measurement of Exoplanetary Environments
Authors: Brian Hicks
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8211-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-8210-9Published: 17 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-5456-8Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-8211-6Published: 17 October 2013
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 127
Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques