Coronographic Methods for the Detection of Terrestrial Planets

Abstract

This report summarizes the current status of efforts to develop the technologies required for coronographic space missions aimed at the detection of terrestrial extrasolar planets.

Conclusions from a workshop held February 02-06, 2004 at Leiden University; edited by A. Quirrenbach; based on contributions from the workshop participants Note: Because of astro-ph's very stringent size limits on pdf files, the resolution of the figures is poor. Contact the author for full-resolution pdf file