TY - GEN
T1 - Planet detection algorithms for the Terrestrial Planet Finder
AU - Kasdin, N. Jeremy
AU - Braems, Isabel
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Current plans call for the first Terrestrial Planet Finder mission, TPF-C, to be a monolithic space telescope with a coronagraph for achieving high contrast. The coronagraph removes the diffracted starlight allowing the nearby planet to be detected. In this paper, we present a model of the planet measurement and noise statistics. We utilize this model to develop two planet detection algorithms, one based on matched filtering of the PSF and one using Bayesian techniques. These models are used to formulate integration time estimates for a planet detection with desired small probabilities of false alarms and missed detections.
AB - Current plans call for the first Terrestrial Planet Finder mission, TPF-C, to be a monolithic space telescope with a coronagraph for achieving high contrast. The coronagraph removes the diffracted starlight allowing the nearby planet to be detected. In this paper, we present a model of the planet measurement and noise statistics. We utilize this model to develop two planet detection algorithms, one based on matched filtering of the PSF and one using Bayesian techniques. These models are used to formulate integration time estimates for a planet detection with desired small probabilities of false alarms and missed detections.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33646576813
SN - 0877035261
SN - 9780877035268
T3 - Advances in the Astronautical Sciences
SP - 209
EP - 228
BT - Malcolm D. Shuster Astronautics Symposium - Advances in the Astronautical Sciences - Proceedings of the University at Buffalo, State University of New York/AAS Malcolm D. Shuster Astronautics Symp.
T2 - Malcolm D. Shuster Astronautics Symposium
Y2 - 12 June 2005 through 15 June 2005
ER -