External Occulter Bibliography

This bibliography contains a partial list of publications concerning external occultation.

Please contact the site-maintainer, jordan_nospamplease_@stsci.edu for relevant publications that are missing from this list.

November 9, 2007.

2007:

"New Worlds Observer Mission Design", T. Glassman, AIAA-2007-6221, Session SSO-79-12, AIAA Space 2007 Conference, Long Beach, CA., September 20, 2007.
"External occulters for direct observation of exoplanets: an overview", W. C. Cash, Jr., E. R. Schindhelm, J. W. Arenberg, A. S. Lo, R. S. Polidan, N. J. Kasdin, R. J. Vanderbei, S. R. Heap, M. J. Kuchner, S. Kilston, M. C. Noecker, S. Seager, San Diego, August 28, 2007, [SPIE 6687-31]
"The TPF-O science program", S. R. Heap, San Diego, August 28, 2007, [SPIE 6687-32]
"TPF-O design reference mission", D. J. Lindler, San Diego, August 28, 2007, [SPIE 6687-33]
"New Worlds Observer optical performance", A. S. Lo, T. Glassman, C. F. Lillie, San Diego, August 28, 2007, [SPIE 6687-34]
"A UV/optical telescope for the New Worlds Observer mission", C. F. Lillie, D. R. Dailey, A. S. Lo, R. S. Polidan, San Diego, August 28, 2007, [SPIE 6687-35]
"Conceptual design of the TPF-O SC bus", L. R. Purves, San Diego, August 28, 2007, [SPIE 6687-36]
"Externally occulted terrestrial planet finder coronagraph: simulations and sensitivities", R. G. Lyon, S. R. Heap, A. S. Lo, W. C. Cash, Jr., G. D. Starkman, R. J. Vanderbei, N. J. Kasdin, C. J. Copi, San Diego, August 28, 2007, [SPIE 6687-37]
"Dynamics and control of a space based extra-solar planet imaging mission consisting of a telescope and multiple occulters", E. Kolemen, N. J. Kasdin, San Diego, August 28, 2007, [SPIE 6687-38]
"Formation flying system design for a planet-finding telescope occulter system", J. A. Leitner, San Diego, August 28, 2007, [SPIE 6687-39]
"New Worlds Observer: future mission architecture and technology roadmaps", R. S. Polidan, W. C. Cash, Jr., C. F. Lillie, A. S. Lo, J. W. Arenberg, San Diego, August 28, 2007, [SPIE 6687-42]
"New Worlds Observer tolerance overview", A. F. Shipley, W. C. Cash, Jr., J. W. Arenberg, A. S. Lo, San Diego, August 28, 2007, [SPIE 6687-46]
"White-light demonstration of one hundred parts per billion irradiance suppression in air by new starshade occulters", D. B. Leviton, W. C. Cash, Jr., B. T. Gleeson, M. J. Kaiser, S. A. Levine, A. S. Lo, E. R. Schindhelm, A. F. Shipley, San Diego, August 28, 2007, [SPIE 6687-50]
"New Worlds Observer: system and mission architecture", J. W. Arenberg, San Diego, August 28, 2007, [SPIE 6693-01]
"Detecting and characterizing extra-solar Earth-like planets with two external occulters", S. L. Hunyadi, A. S. Lo, San Diego, August 28, 2007, [SPIE 6693-02]
"Optimal design of petal-shaped occulters for extra-solar planet detection", E. J. Cady, N. J. Kasdin, R. J. Vanderbei, R. Belikov, San Diego, August 28, 2007, [SPIE 6693-03]
"Laboratory studies of petal-shaped occulters", E. R. Schindhelm, W. C. Cash, Jr., A. F. Shipley, P. Oakley, D. B. Leviton, San Diego, August 28, 2007, [SPIE 6693-04]
"Alignment of a terrestrial planet finder occulter at 20-100 megameters", M. C. Noecker, San Diego, August 28, 2007, [SPIE 6693-05]
"Free-flying External Occulter Mission Design, Simulation, and Analysis", I. Jordan, Mackinac Island, MI, Spaceflight Mechanics Conf., AAS 07-430, August 23, 2007.
"External Occulters for the Direct Study of Exoplanets", W. Cash, C. Copi, S. Heap, N. J. Kasdin, S. Kilston, M. Kuchner, M. Levine, A. Lo, C. Lillie, R. Lyon, R. Polidan, S. Shaklan, G. Starkman, W. Traub, R. Vanderbei, submitted to the ExoPlanet Task Force in Response to the NASA Call for White Papers, April 2, 2007.
"The TPF-C-plus-O Mission Concept", W. Traub & J. Kasdin, submitted to the ExoPlanet Task Force in Response to the NASA Call for White Papers, April 2, 2007.
"Optimal Trajectory Control of an Occulter-Based Planet-Finding Telescope", E. Kolemen & N. J. Kasdin, American Astronautical Society, 07-037, Proceedings of the AAS Guidance and Control Conference, Breckenridge, CO, Feb. 3-7, 2007.
"Optimal Configuration of a Planet-Finding Mission Consisting of a Telescope and a Constellation of Occulters", E. Kolemen, N. J. Kasdin, American Astronautical Society 07-202, Proceedings of the AAS Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Sedona, AZ, 28 Jan. - 01 Feb., 2007.
"Celestial Exoplanet Survey Occulter: A Concept for Direct Imaging of Extrasolar Earth-like Planets from the Ground ", M. Janson,Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, v.119: 214-227, 2007 February.

2006:

"The New Worlds Observer: Using Occulters to Directly Observe Planets", W. Cash, E. Schindhelm, J. Arenberg, R. Polidan, S. Kilston, C. Noecker, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation I: Optical Infrared and Millimeter, Proc. of SPIE, v. 6265, ed. J. Mather, H. MacEwen, M. de Graauw, 2006.
"Detection of Earth-like planets around nearby stars using a petal-shaped occulter.", W. Cash, Nature, v.442 pp.51-53, July 6, 2006.
"New Worlds Observer: Orbit and Sky Coverage", Amy Lo, R. Malmstrom, T. Guilmette, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, BAAS v.38, p.1142, January 2007.
"TPF-C: Size and Completeness", S. L. Hunyadi, TPF-C Coronagraph Workshop, JPL, Pasadena, CA, September 28, 2006.
"External Occulter Trajectory Study", Martin Lo, TPF-C Coronagraph Workshop, JPL, Pasadena, CA September 29 2006.
"Imaging Exoplanets from the Moon", A. B. Schultz, R. Lyon, I. Jordan, P. Chen, M. Kochte, F. Bruhweiler, M. Rodrigue, D. Bennum, D. Gezari, K. -P. Cheng, Poster and submitted proceedings presented at the STScI Workshop on Astrophysics Enabled by the Return to the Moon, Baltimore, November 2006.
"Planning and Scheduling External Occulter Space Missions", I. Jordan, International Workshop for Planning and Scheduling for Space, AAAI, Baltimore, October 2006 ( available at http://umbras.org/publications.html ).
"Optically Scaled External Occulter Data Analysis", I. Jordan, P. Henze, G. Sauter, H. Hart, P. Chen, D. Fraquelli, Poster presented at the June 2006 American Astronomical Society meeting in Calgary, Alberta, Canada (available at http://umbras.org/publications.html )
"New Worlds Observer Occulter Parameters", J. Arenberg, W. Cash, A. Lo, poster at June 2006 American Astronomical Society Meeting, Calgary, CA.
"New Worlds Occulter Design Space", Jonathan Arenberg, Amy Lo, Webser Cash, Ron Polidan, Charles Lillie, SPIE Astronomical and Instrumentation 2006, Orlando, FL, SPIE 6265-67.
"New Worlds Observer: A novel mission for the detection of exoplanets", J. Arenberg, in Direct Imaging of Exoplanets: Science and Techniques, ed. Aime, C., and F. Vakili, IAU Colloquium 200, Cambridge University Press, 2006.

2005:

"Direct Studies of Exo-Planets with the New Worlds Observer", Cash, W., Kasdin, J., Seager, S., and Arenberg, J., SPIE, 5899, Paper 29, 2005.
"Free-Flying External Occulting Screens", A. B. Schultz, R.G. Lyon, G.D. Starkman, F. Bruhweiler, C. Copi, J. Schneider, W. Cash, White paper submitted in response to the NASA call for input to the Universe Roadmap Committee, announced January 24, 2005, and submitted February 17, 2005.

2004:

"Relaxing TPF System Requirements with an External Occulter", I. Jordan, H. Hart, R. Lyon, A. B. Schultz, G. Starkman, C. Copi, R. Woodruff, M. Kochte, F. Bruhweiler, P. C. Chen, M. Rodrigue, K. P. Cheng, Second International TPF-Darwin Conf., San Diego, CA., P-092, July 26-29, 2004, http://planetquest1.jpl.nasa.gov/TPFDarwinConf/index.cfm .
"Are External Occulters Useful for TPF-C?", I. Jordan, H. M. Hart, R. G. Lyon, A. B. Schultz, G. Starkman, M. Kochte, F. Bruhweiler, P. C. Chen, R. Woodruff, Second Annual TPF/Darwin conference, Poster #92, proceedings posted at: http://planetquest1.jpl.nasa.gov/TPFDarwinConf/confProceedings.cfm , San Diego, CA July 26-29, 2004.
"Apodized Square Aperture Plus Occulter Concept for TPF", I. Jordan, A. B. Schultz, R. G. Lyon, H. M. Hart, F. Bruhweiler, D. Fraquelli, K. Carpenter, M. Kochte, J. M. Hollis, Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation conference, SPIE-5487-194, Glasgow, Scotland, June 2004.
"External Occulter Operations Requirements", M. Kochte, A. B. Schultz, I. Jordan, D. Fraquelli, H. M. Hart, J. Leitner, R. D. Burns SpaceOps 2004, Montreal, May, 2004.
"The New Worlds Observer: a mission for high-resolution spectroscopy of extra-solar terrestrial planets", W. L. Simmons, W. C. Cash, S. Seager, E. Wilkinson, N. J. Kasdin, R. J. Vanderbei, N. Chow, E. Gralla, and J. Kleingeld, Proc. of SPIE, Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Space Telescopes, ed. by J. C. Mather, Volume 5487, pp. 1634-1645, 2004.

2003:

"Imaging Terrestrial Planets", M. Kochte, A. B. Schultz, F. Bruhweiler, D. Fraquelli, R. Lyon, I. Jordan, K. Carpenter, M. DiSanti, C. Miskey, M. Rodrigue, M. S. Fadali, D. Skelton, H. M. Hart, K. -P. Cheng, 14th Annual October Astrophysics Conference at U. Maryland, The Search for Other Worlds, October 13-14, 2003.
"The Advantages of Multiple Coronagraphic Vehicles in Occulter Missions", I. Jordan, H. Hart, A. Schultz, G. Starkman, C. Copi, M. Kochte, AIAA Space 2003 Conference and Exposition, AIAA-2003-6300, Long Beach, CA, Sept. 23-25, 2003.
"Imaging Terrestrial Planets with a Free Flying Occulter and Space Telescope: An Optical Simulation", A. B. Schultz , R. Lyon , M. Kochte, D. Fraquelli, F. Bruhweiler, I. Jordan, K. Carpenter, M. DiSanti, C. Miskey, M. Rodrigue, M. Fadali, D. Skelton, H. Hart, K.-P. Cheng, Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets, Conf. 5170, August 3, 2003.
"NOME: Modifying Nexus into an Occulter for use with NGST", I. Jordan, C.-C. Wu, A. Schultz, M. Kochte, H. Hart, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, volume 56, no. 7/8, July/August 2003.
"System Concept Design for the New Worlds Observer", Simmons, W.; Kasdin, N. J.; Vanderbei, R. J.; Cash, W. American Astronomical Society Meeting 203, #03.09; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 2003AAS...203.0309S, Vol. 35, p.1205, December, 2003.

2002:

"UMBRAS: A Matched Occulter and Telescope for Imaging Extrasolar Planets", A. B. Schultz, I. J. E. Jordan, M. Kochte, D. Fraquelli, F. Bruhweiler, J. M. Hollis, K. G. Carpenter, R. G. Lyon, M. DiSanti, C. Miskey, J. Leitner, R. D. Burns, S. R. Starin, M. Rodrigue, M. S. Fadali, D. Skelton, H. M. Hart, F. Hamilton, and K.-P. Cheng SPIE Conference 4860 on High Contrast Imaging for Exo-Planet Detection, August 23, 2002, Kona, HI.
"Free Flying Occulters for Space Telescopes", M. Kochte, I. Jordan, A. Schultz F. Hamilton, F. Bruhweiler, M. DiSanti, R. D. Burns, K. Carpenter, J. M. Hollis, J. Leitner, R. G. Lyon, S. Starin, M. S. Fadali, M. Rodrigue, D. L. Skelton, H. M. Hart, poster presented at the 199th AAS conference in Washington, D.C., January 6, 2002.

2001:

"Modifying L2 Missions into Occulters for NGST", I. Jordan, M. Kochte, C. -C. Wu, A. B. Schultz, H. M. Hart, F. Bruhweiler, poster presented at the 198th AAS conference in Pasadena, CA, June 7, 2001.

2000:

"UMBRAS: Design of a Free-Flying Occulter for Space Telescopes", I. Jordan, A. Schultz, H. Hart, F. Bruhweiler, D. Fraquelli, F. Hamilton, J. Hershey, AIAA Space 2000 Conference and Exposition , AIAA 2000-5230, Long Beach, CA, Sept. 19-21, 2000, ISBN#1-56347-461-1.
"Imaging Planets About Other Stars with UMBRAS II", A.B. Schultz, I. Jordan, H. M. Hart, F. Bruhweiler, D.A. Fraquelli, F.C. Hamilton, J. Hershey, M. Kochte, M.A. DiSanti, C.L. Miskey, K.P. Cheng, M. Rodrigue, B. Johnson, S. Fadali, SPIE Meeting on Infrared Space borne Remote Sensing VIII, Conf. 4130, pp. 132+, 30 July -4 August 2000, San Diego, CA.
"Imaging Planets About Other Stars with UMBRAS: Target Acquisition and Station Keeping", H.M. Hart, I. Jordan, A.B. Schultz, J. Hershey, M. Kochte, F.C. Hamilton, D.A. Fraquelli, D.J. Schroeder, F. Bruhweiler, M.A. DiSanti, C. Miskey, B. Johnson, M.S. Fadali, M. Rodrigue, K.P. Cheng, R. Clark, International Conference on the Application of Photonic Technology (ICAPT 2000), Conf. 4087, pp.993-1003, June 12-17, 2000, Quebec City, Quebec.
"The Big Occulting Steerable Satellite (BOSS)", C. J. Copi, G. D. Starkman, The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 532, pp.581-592, March 2000.

1999:

"Enhancing NGST Science: UMBRAS", I. Jordan, A. Schultz, D. Schroeder, H. M. Hart, F. Bruhweiler, D. Fraquelli, F. Hamilton, M. DiSanti, M. Rodrigue, K. P. Cheng, C. Miskey, M. Kochte, B. Johnson, M. S. Fadali, NGST Science & Technology Exposition, Poster and summary paper ASP CS-207 pp.468-473, Sept. 13-16, 1999, Hyannis, MA.
"Imaging Planets About Other Stars with NGST", A. B. Schultz, D. J. Schroeder, I. Jordan, F. Bruhweiler, M. A. DiSanti, H. M. Hart, F. C. Hamilton, M. Kochte, K.P. Cheng, M. Rodrigue, SPIE Conf. 3759, pp. 49-58, July 21-23, 1999, Denver, CO.

1998:

"The Improved Resolution and Image Separation (IRIS) Satellite: Astronomical Observations with a large occulting satellite", Starkman, G.D. and Copi, C. J., SPIE Proc. v.3356, pp.608-621, 1998.

1985:

"Concept of a space telescope able to see the planets and even the satellites around the nearest stars", C. Marchal, Acta Astronautica, v. 12, no. 3., pp.195-201, Pergamon Press, 1985.

1974:

"Concept analysis and discussion: observation of extrasolar planets with an LST", G. R. Woodcock, Appendix D to Boeing contract study for NASA, in "Future Space Transportation Systems Analysis", NAS9-14323, D180-18501-2, December 11, 1974.

1962:

"The Beginnings and Future of Space Astronomy", Lyman Spitzer, in American Scientist, v. 50, no. 3, p. 473, September/October, 1962.