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Nulling Interferometers for Space-based High-Contrast Visible Imaging and Measurement of Exoplanetary Environments

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Roughly four decades following the first printing of Nicolas Copernicus’s De revolutionibus orbium coelestium and three decades prior to Galileo’s 1609 discovery of the four major Jovian moons, Giordano Bruno posited in De l’infinito universo et mondi that the stars in the sky were really other suns like our own, and that they too had planets which orbited them. Isaac Newton would echo this line of thinking in his 1713 General Scholium. Today we refer to these bodies as exoplanets. Without examples to suggest otherwise, one might expect these alien worlds orbiting distant stars to resemble the terrestrial and gas giants we are familiar with in our own Solar System.

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Hicks, B. (2014). Introduction. In: Nulling Interferometers for Space-based High-Contrast Visible Imaging and Measurement of Exoplanetary Environments. Springer Theses. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8211-6_1

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