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 …

Combining EFC with spatial LDFC for high-contrast imaging on Subaru/SCExAO

K Ahn, O Guyon, J Lozi, S Vievard, V Deo… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Exoplanet direct imaging is a key science goal of current ground-based telescopes
as well as of future ground-based extremely large telescopes and space-based telescopes …

High-contrast imaging with an arbitrary aperture: active compensation of aperture discontinuities

L Pueyo, C Norman - The Astrophysical Journal, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new method to achieve high-contrast images using segmented and/or on-axis
telescopes. Our approach relies on using two sequential deformable mirrors (DMs) to …

Comparing focal plane wavefront control techniques: Numerical simulations and laboratory experiments

A Potier, P Baudoz, R Galicher, G Singh… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. Fewer than 1% of all exoplanets detected to date have been characterized on the
basis of spectroscopic observations of their atmosphere. Unlike indirect methods, high …

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 …

Application of a damped locally optimized combination of images method to the spectral characterization of faint companions using an integral field spectrograph

L Pueyo, JR Crepp, G Vasisht, D Brenner… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
High-contrast imaging instruments are now being equipped with integral field spectrographs
(IFSs) to facilitate the detection and characterization of faint substellar companions …

ESCAPE project: investigating active observing strategies and post-processing methods for exoplanet high-contrast imaging with future space missions

E Choquet, L Altinier, N Godoy, A Lau… - Space Telescopes …, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The search for biosignatures in potentially habitable exoplanets is one of the major
astrophysics' drivers for the coming decades, and the prime science goal of the HWO NASA …

High-order myopic coronagraphic phase diversity (COFFEE) for wave-front control in high-contrast imaging systems.

B Paul, LM Mugnier, JF Sauvage, K Dohlen… - Optics …, 2013 - opg.optica.org
The estimation and compensation of quasi-static aberrations is mandatory to reach the
ultimate performance of high-contrast imaging systems. COFFEE is a focal plane wave-front …

Estimation and correction of wavefront aberrations using the self-coherent camera: laboratory results

J Mazoyer, P Baudoz, R Galicher, M Mas… - Astronomy & …, 2013 - aanda.org
Context. Direct imaging of exoplanets requires very high contrast levels, which are obtained
using coronagraphs. But residual quasi-static aberrations create speckles in the focal plane …

Fast coherent differential imaging on ground-based telescopes using the self-coherent camera

BL Gerard, C Marois, R Galicher - The Astronomical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Direct imaging and spectral characterization of exoplanets using extreme adaptive optics
(ExAO) is a key science goal of future extremely large telescopes and space observatories …