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High Angular Resolution and Extrasolar Planets: Beyond Basic Instrumental Performances

Jean Schneider

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0202377

Abstract

I review the characteristics of planetary systems accessible to imaging. I show that, beyond the basic angular resolution and dynamics performances of an optical ``architecture'', other performances such as photometric precision, spectral range or timing are necessary to access some physical characteristics of the planets.

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