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Nulling interferometry, a coronographic technique used in astronomy, is the core of the ESA Darwin mission dedicated to the direct detection of extrasolar earth-like...

There are two problems with the observation of exoplanets: the contrast between the planet and the star and their very low separation. One technique solving these...

Direct detection of exoplanets is mandatory in order to characterize them. However, this is a hard task because of the small angular separation and high contrast...

From all exoplanet detection methods, transit photometry went through the quickest growth over the last few years thanks to the two space telescopes, CoRoT (in 2006)...