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NASA’s Extra-solar Neighboring Planetary Systems (ExNPS) roadmap recommends a decade of vigorous exploration from the ground during the design and development of the space infrared nulling interferometer. An element of the ground observational program will be discovering and analyzing nearby extra-solar planetary systems through direct imaging of giant planets. To accomplish this goal will require extending the current capabilities for direct detection of faint sources to a new domain of very high contrast and sensitivity, made possible only through the technology of adaptive optics (AO). In this paper, we will discuss the potential of AO for discoveries from the ground, and show that a new advanced form of AO on large telescopes will yield direct images of Jupiter-like planets around nearby stars.
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Sandler, D.G. (1997). Prospects for Direct Imaging from the Ground. In: Eiroa, C., Alberdi, A., Thronson, H., De Graauw, T., Schalinski, C.J. (eds) Infrared Space Interferometry: Astrophysics & the Study of Earth-Like Planets. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 215. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5468-0_34
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