The Segmented Aperture Interferometric Nulling Testbed (SAINT) I: overview and air-side system description

BA Hicks, RG Lyon, P Petrone III… - Space Telescopes …, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
This work presents an overview of the Segmented Aperture Interferometric Nulling Testbed
(SAINT), a project that will pair an actively-controlled macro-scale segmented mirror with the …

Recent developments with the visible nulling coronagraph

BA Hicks, RG Lyon, MR Bolcar… - Optical and Infrared …, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
A wide array of general astrophysics studies including detecting and characterizing
habitable exoplanets could be enabled by a future large segmented telescope with …

Segmented aperture interferometric nulling testbed (saint) ii: component systems update

BA Hicks, MR Bolcar, MA Helmbrecht… - … for Detection of …, 2017 - spiedigitallibrary.org
This work presents updates to the coronagraph and telescope components of the
Segmented Aperture Interferometric Nulling Testbed (SAINT). The project pairs an actively …

[PDF][PDF] TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT FOR EXOPLANET MISSIONS

OG PI - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2014 - exoplanets.nasa.gov
The direct detection and spectroscopic characterization of exoplanets in our local
neighborhood requires starlight to be suppressed relative to the planet at small angular …