Apodized vortex coronagraph designs for segmented aperture telescopes
Abstract
Current state-of-the-art high contrast imaging instruments take advantage of a number of elegant coronagraph designs to suppress starlight and image nearby faint objects, such as exoplanets and circumstellar disks. The ideal performance and complexity of the optical systems depends strongly on the shape of the telescope aperture. Unfortunately, large primary mirrors tend to be segmented and have various obstructions, which limit the performance of most conventional coronagraph designs. We present a new family of vortex coronagraphs with numerically-optimized gray-scale apodizers that provide the sensitivity needed to directly image faint exoplanets with large, segmented aperture telescopes, including the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) as well as potential next-generation space telescopes.
Additional Information
© 2016 SPIE. Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. The authors thank Brunella Carlomagno and Olivier Absil from the University of Liège (ULg), Alexis Carlotti from Institute of Planetology and Astrophysics of Grenoble (IPAG), and Christian Delacroix from Cornell University for many fruitful discussions regarding coronagraph performance and optimization. This work was supported by the Exoplanet Exploration Program (ExEP), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).Attached Files
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- 72673
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20161208-143555472
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2016-12-09Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-11Created from EPrint's last_modified field
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- Proceedings of SPIE
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- 9912