Cool Stars 14 - Submitted Abstract # 351
This version created on 05 October 2006

Science with Ground-Based Coronagraphy


Ben R. Oppenheimer, American Museum of Natural History

Ground-based coronagraphy has played an important role in the study of
substellar mass objects in the solar neighborhood, including the
discovery and investigation of brown dwarfs and detailed morphology of
circumstellar disks.  Coronagraphy, in association with adaptive
optics on the ground, will play a major role in comparative
exoplanetary science within the next decade.  I will review the state
of the art and the next generation of these sorts of instruments and
what can be expected from a scientific standpoint.  I will also
demonstrate the critical connections between this work and the planned
extraterrestrial missions employing coronagraphy.  

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