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 …

Roman space telescope coronagraph: engineering design and operating concept

I Poberezhskiy, T Luchik, F Zhao… - Space Telescopes …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (formerly known as WFIRST) is a flagship
astrophysics mission planned for launch in 2025. The coronagraph instrument (CGI) on …

Vortex coronagraphs for the Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission concept: theoretical performance and telescope requirements

G Ruane, D Mawet, B Mennesson… - Journal of …, 2018 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission concept requires an optical coronagraph that
provides deep starlight suppression over a broad spectral bandwidth, high throughput for …

Hybrid Lyot coronagraph for WFIRST: high-contrast broadband testbed demonstration

BJ Seo, E Cady, B Gordon, B Kern… - … for Detection of …, 2017 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Hybrid Lyot Coronagraph (HLC) is one of the two operating modes of the Wide-Field
InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) coronagraph instrument. Since being selected by …

Analytical performance model and error budget for the Roman coronagraph instrument

B Nemati, J Krist, I Poberezhskiy… - Journal of Astronomical …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (“Roman”), under development by NASA, will
investigate possible causes for the phenomenon of dark energy and detect and characterize …

Wavefront sensing and control in space-based coronagraph instruments using Zernike's phase-contrast method

G Ruane, JK Wallace, J Steeves… - Journal of …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Future space telescopes with coronagraph instruments will use a wavefront sensor (WFS) to
measure and correct for phase errors and stabilize the stellar intensity in high-contrast …

Direct imaging and spectroscopy of extrasolar planets

T Currie, B Biller, AM Lagrange, C Marois… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Direct imaging and spectroscopy is the likely means by which we will someday identify,
confirm, and characterize an Earth-like planet around a nearby Sun-like star. This Chapter …

The LUVOIR Extreme Coronagraph for Living Planetary Systems (ECLIPS) I: searching and characterizing exoplanetary gems

L Pueyo, C Stark, R Juanola-Parramon… - … for Detection of …, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Detection and characterization of Earth-like planets around nearby stars using the direct
imaging technique is a key scientific objective of future NASA astrophysics flagship …

Flight mask designs of the Roman Space Telescope coronagraph instrument

AJE Riggs, V Bailey, DC Moody… - … for Detection of …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, planned to launch in the mid-2020s, will be the
first space-based observatory to demonstrate active wavefront correction at high contrast …

High-contrast imager for complex aperture telescopes (HiCAT): 8. Dark zone demonstration with simultaneous closed-loop low-order wavefront sensing and control

R Soummer, EH Por, R Pourcelot… - Space Telescopes …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We present recent laboratory results demonstrating high-contrast coronagraphy for the
future space-based large IR/Optical/Ultraviolet telescope recommended by the Decadal …