Apodized phase mask coronagraphs for arbitrary apertures-ii. comprehensive review of solutions for the vortex coronagraph

A Carlotti, L Pueyo, D Mawet - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2014 - aanda.org
Context. With a clear circular aperture, the vortex coronagraph perfectly cancels an on-axis
point source and offers a 0.9 or 1.75λ/D inner working angle for topological charge 2 or 4 …

Imaging exoplanets with coronagraphic instruments

R Galicher, J Mazoyer - Comptes …, 2023 - comptes-rendus.academie-sciences …
L'exoplanétologie est un domaine très actif de l'astronomie moderne avec des questions
encore ouvertes: comment les systèmes planétaires se forment-ils et évoluent-ils; pourquoi …

High performance Lyot and PIAA coronagraphy for arbitrarily shaped telescope apertures

O Guyon, PM Hinz, E Cady, R Belikov… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Two high-performance coronagraphic approaches compatible with segmented and
obstructed telescope pupils are described. Both concepts use entrance pupil amplitude …

Apodized pupil Lyot coronagraphs for arbitrary apertures. V. Hybrid shaped pupil designs for imaging Earth-like planets with future space observatories

M N'Diaye, R Soummer, L Pueyo… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We introduce a new class of solutions for Apodized Pupil Lyot Coronagraphs (APLC) with
segmented aperture telescopes to remove broadband diffracted light from a star with a …

Apodized pupil Lyot coronagraphs for arbitrary apertures. IV. Reduced inner working angle and increased robustness to low-order aberrations

M N'Diaye, L Pueyo, R Soummer - The Astrophysical Journal, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Apodized Pupil Lyot Coronagraph (APLC) is a diffraction suppression
system installed in the recently deployed instruments Palomar/P1640, Gemini/GPI, and …

Analytical determination of orbital elements using Fourier analysis-II. Gaia astrometry and its combination with radial velocities

JB Delisle, D Ségransan - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2022 - aanda.org
The ESA global astrometry space mission Gaia has been monitoring the position of a billion
stars since 2014. The analysis of such a massive dataset is challenging in terms of the data …

Validation of strategies for coupling exoplanet PSFs into single-mode fibres for high-dispersion coronagraphy

M El Morsy, A Vigan, M Lopez, G Otten… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
On large ground-based telescopes, the combination of extreme adaptive optics (ExAO) and
coronagraphy with high-dispersion spectroscopy (HDS), sometimes referred to as high …

High-contrast imaging in polychromatic light with the self-coherent camera

J Mazoyer, P Baudoz, R Galicher… - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2014 - aanda.org
Context. In the context of direct imaging of exoplanets, coronagraphs are commonly
proposed to reach the required very high contrast levels. However, wavefront aberrations …

Focal plane wavefront sensor achromatization: The multireference self-coherent camera

JR Delorme, R Galicher, P Baudoz, G Rousset… - Astronomy & …, 2016 - aanda.org
Context. High contrast imaging and spectroscopy provide unique constraints for exoplanet
formation models as well as for planetary atmosphere models. But this can be challenging …

Calibration of residual aberrations in exoplanet imagers with large numbers of degrees of freedom

R Pourcelot, A Vigan, K Dohlen, B Rouzé… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Imaging faint objects, such as exoplanets or disks, around nearby stars is extremely
challenging because host star images are dominated by the telescope diffraction pattern …