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General Astrophysics and Comparative Planetology with the Terrestrial Planet Finder Missions
Marc J. Kuchner
The two Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) missions aim to perform spectroscopy on extrasolar Earths; TPF-C will operate in visible light, and TPF-I will operate in the mid-infrared.…
Extrasolar Carbon Planets
Marc J. Kuchner, S. Seager
We suggest that some extrasolar planets <~ 60 Earth masses will form substantially from silicon carbide and other carbon compounds. Pulsar planets and low-mass white dwarf planets…
A Unified View of Coronagraph Image Masks
Marc J. Kuchner
The last few years have seen a variety of new image mask designs for diffraction-limited coronagraphy. Could there still be useful designs as yet undiscovered? To begin to answer t…
Terrestrial Planet Finding with a Visible Light Coronagraph
M. J. Kuchner, D. N. Spergel
Directly imaging extrasolar planets using a monolithic optical telescope avoids many pitfalls of space interferometry and opens up the prospect of visible light studies of extrasol…