High dynamic range direct imaging of exoplanets with an off-axis Antarctic telescope

• Main Author: Britton, Tui Rose
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: UNSW, Sydney 2009
• Subjects: Exoplanets; Antarctic telescope; Antarctic; Gemini; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/43607; https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/bitstreams/56797876-d286-40b1-890f-8ac3c4980323/download; https://doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/20596

This thesis presents an analysis of the potential for high dynamic range direct imaging of exoplanets with a propsed off-axis Antarctic telescope named the Large Antarctic Plateau Clear-Aperture Telescope (LAPCAT). LAPCAT is a proposed 8.4 metre off-axis telescope with a deformable 1 m secondary mir...