The Big Occulting Steerable Satellite (BOSS)
@article{Copi2000TheBO, title={The Big Occulting Steerable Satellite (BOSS)}, author={Craig J Copi and Glenn D Starkman}, journal={The Astrophysical Journal}, year={2000}, volume={532}, pages={581 - 592} }
Natural (such as lunar) occultations have long been used to study sources on small angular scales, while coronographs have been used to study high-contrast sources. We describe here the properties of the Big Occulting Steerable Satellite (BOSS), a large steerable occulting satellite to combine both of these techniques. BOSS will have several advantages over standard occulting bodies. BOSS would block all but about 4 × 10-5 of the light at 1 μm in the region of interest around the star for…
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