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Bibliography of Papers on Nulling Interferometry and Planet-Finding Interferometers

Nulling Interferometry

Astrophysical Observations

• Imaging circumstellar environments with a nulling interferometer
  P.M. Hinz, J.R.P. Angel, W.F. Hoffmann, D.W. McCarthy Jr., P.C. MacGuire, M. Cheselka, J.L. Hora, and N.J. Woolf
  Nature 395, 251-253 (1998).

Experimental Results

• Deep and stable interferometric nulling of broadband light with implications for observing planets around nearby stars
  K. Wallace, G. Hardy, E. Serabyn
  Nature 406, 700-702 (2000).

• Deep nulling of visible laser light
  E. Serabyn, J.K. Wallace, G.J. Hardy, E.G.H. Schmidtlin, H.T. Nguyen
  Appl. Opt., 38, 7128-7132 (1999).

Theory and Limitations

• Systematic errors in nulling interferometers
  O.P. Lay
  Appl. Opt. 43, 6100-6123 (2004).

• Imaging properties of rotating nulling interferometers
  O.P. Lay
  Appl. Opt. 44, 1 October (2005).

• Planetary signal extraction for the interferometric Terrestrial Planet Finder
  D.W. Draper, N.M. Elias II, M.C. Noecker, et al.
  Astrophys. J. submitted (2005).

TPF Planet Finder Interferometer (Mission Description)

• Terrestrial Planet Finder: architecture, mission design, and technology development
  C. Henry, O.P. Lay, M. Aung, et. al.
  New Frontiers in Stellar Interferometry, W.A. Traub, ed., Proc. SPIE 5491, 265-274 (2004).

• Architecture selection and optimization for planet-finding interferometers
  S. Dubovitsky and O.P. Lay
  New Frontiers in Stellar Interferometry, W.A. Traub, ed., Proc. SPIE 5491, 284-295 (2004).

Array Concepts and Designs

• Detection of Close-In Extrasolar Giant Planets Using theFourier-Kelvin Stellar Interferometer
  W.C. Danchi, D. Deming, M.J. Kuchner, and S. Seager
  Astrophys. J. 597, L57-L60 (2003).

• Array configurations for a space infrared nulling interferometer dedicated to the search for earthlike extrasolar planets
  B. Mennesson and J.M. Mariotti
  Icarus 128, 202-212 (1997).

• An imaging nulling interferometer to study extrasolar planets
  J.R.P. Angel and N.J. Woolf
  Ap.J. 475, 373-379 (1997).

• Could we search for primitive life on extrasolar planets in the near future?: The DARWIN Project
  A. Leger, J.M. Mariotti, B. Mennesson, M. Ollivier, J.L. Puget, D. Rouan, and J. Schneider
  Icarus 123, 249-255 (1996).

• Direct IR interferometric Detection of extra solar planets
  M. Shao
  Proc. NASA/STSI Workshop on The Next Generation Space Telescope
  P.Y. Bely, C.J. Burrows, and G.D. Illingworth, eds.,
  (Space Telescope Science Institute: Baltimore, 1990), pp. 160-168.

• Hubble extra solar planet interferometer
  M. Shao
  in Space Astronomical Telescopes and Instruments
  Proc. SPIE 1494 (SPIE Press: Bellingham, WA, 1991).

• An orbiting infrared interferometer to search for nonsolar planets
  R.H. MacPhie and R.N. Bracewell
  in Instruments in Astronomy III
  Proc. SPIE 172, 271-278 (1979).

• Searching for nonsolar planets
  R.N. Bracewell and R.H. MacPhie
  Icarus 38, 136-147 (1979).

• Detecting nonsolar planets by spinning infrared interferometer
  R.N. Bracewell
  Nature 274, 780-781 (1978).

Methods of Beam Combination

• Fully symmetric nulling beam combiners
  Eugene Serabyn and Mark Colavita
  Appl. Opt., 40, 1668-1671 (2001).

• Nulling interferometry by use of geometric phase
  Naoshi Baba, Naoshi Murakami, and Tsuyoshi Ishigaki
  Optics Letters 26, 1167-1169 (2001).

Single-Mode Filters

• Use of single-mode waveguides to correct the optical defects of a nulling interferometer
  B. Mennesson, M. Ollivier, C. Ruilier
  J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 19, 596-602 (2002).

• Minimum length of a single-mode fiber spatial filter
  O. Wallner, W.R. Leeb, and P.J. Winzer
  J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 19, 2445-2448 (2002)

• Improvement in the rejection rate of a nulling interferometer by spatial filtering
  M. Ollivier and J.M. Mariotti
  Applied Optics 36, 5340-5346 (1997).

Metrology and Path-Length Control

• MSTAR: a submicrometer absolute metrology system
  O.P. Lay, S. Dubovitsky, R.D. Peters, et al.
  Opt. Lett. 28, 890-892 (2003)

• Nulling interferometry without achromatic phase shifters
  A.L. Mieremet and J.J.M. Braat
  Appl. Opt. 41, 4697-4703 (2002).

• Nanometer-Level Path-Length Control Scheme for Nulling Interferometry
  E. Serabyn
  Appl. Opt. 38, 4213-4216 (1999)

Formation Flying Technology

Biomarkers and Spectroscopy

• Search for primitive life on a distant planet: relevance of O2 and O3 detections
  A. Leger, M. Pirre, and F.J. Marceau
  Astron. Astrop. 277, 309-313 (1993).

• Combination of nulling interferometer and modified pupil for observations of exo-planets
  J. Nishikawa, T. Kotani, N. Murakami, N. Baba, Y. Itoh and M. Tamura
  Astron. Astrophys. 435, 379-384 (2005).

• Interferometric Remapped Array Nulling
  F. Vakili, E. Aristidi, L. Abe and B. Lopez
  Astron. Astrophys. 421, 147-156 (2004)

• Deep nulling by means of multiple-beam recombination
  A.L. Mieremet, J.J.M. Braat
  J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 42, 1867-1875 (2003).

• A nulling wide field imager for exoplanets detection and general astrophysics
  O. Guyon and F. Roddier
  Astron. Astrophys. 391, 379-395 (2002).

TPF/Darwin Conference Proceedings

• Dust Disks and the Formation, Evolution and Detection of Habitable Planets
  26-29 July 2004, San Diego, California, USA
  Web-based Proceedings
  Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2004)

• Towards Other Earths: Darwin/TPF and the Search for Extrasolar Planets
  22-25 April 2003, Heidelberg, Germany
  Edited by B. Battrick
  European Space Agency: ESA SP-539 (2003)

• Darwin and Astronomy: The Infrared Space Interferometer
  17-19 November 1999, Stockholm, Sweden
  European Space Agency: ESA SP-451 (2000)

Formation Flying Conference Proceedings

• 2nd International Symposium on Formation Flying Mission and Technology
  14-16 September 2004, Washington, DC, USA
  Web-based Proceedings
  Goddard Space Flight Center (2005)

• Vol en Formation: Missions et Technologies
  29-31 October 2002, Toulouse, France
  Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (2002)

Related Papers

• Astronomical searches for earth-like planets and signs of life
  N.J. Woolf and J.R. Angel
  Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrop. 36, 507-537 (1998).

• Long-baseline optical and infrared stellar interferometry
  Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrop. M. Shao and M.M. Colavita
  30, 457-498 (1992).
  A space telescope for infrared spectroscopy of Earth-like planets
  J.R.P. Angel, A.Y.S. Cheng, and N.J. Woolf
  Nature 322, 341-343 (1986).

  Use of a 16 m telescope to detect earthlike planets
  R. Angel
  Proc. NASA/STSI Workshop on The Next Generation Space Telescope
  P.Y. Bely, C.J. Burrows, and G.D. Illingworth, eds.,
  (Space Telescope Science Institute: Baltimore, 1990), pp. 81-95.

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