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Publications (6)

astro-ph.IM2026

The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB): 11. Modeling and correction of chromatic aberrations

Kyle Van Gorkom, Ramya M. Anche, Saraswathi Kalyani Subramanian +12

The space coronagraph optical bench (SCoOB) is a high contrast imaging testbed designed to demonstrate starlight suppression techniques at visible wavelengths in a space-like vacuu…

astro-ph.IM2025

The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB): 8. end-to-end numerical modeling of the testbed to estimate the contrast limits

Ramya M Anche, Kyle Van Gorkom, Kian Milani +9

The space coronagraph optical bench (SCoOB) at the University of Arizona is a high-contrast imaging testbed designed to operate in a vacuum to obtain a contrast better than 1e-8 in…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB): X. Dark zone maintenance

Saraswathi Kalyani Subramanian, Kyle Van Gorkom, Ramya Anche +12

The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB) is a vacuum high contrast imaging testbed designed to demonstrate starlight suppression at optical wavelengths and obtain contrasts bett…

astro-ph.IM2024

The space coronagraph optical bench (SCoOB): 3. Mueller matrix polarimetry of a coronagraphic exit pupil

Jaren N. Ashcraft, Ewan S. Douglas, Ramya M. Anche +4

High-contrast imaging in the next decade aims to image exoplanets at smaller angular separations and deeper contrasts than ever before. A problem that has recently garnered attenti…

astro-ph.IM2023

Poke: An open-source ray-based physical optics platform

Jaren N. Ashcraft, Ewan S. Douglas, Daewook Kim +8

Integrated optical models allow for accurate prediction of the as-built performance of an optical instrument. Optical models are typically composed of a separate ray trace and diff…

astro-ph.IM2024

The space coronagraph optical bench (SCoOB): 4. vacuum performance of a high contrast imaging testbed

Kyle Van Gorkom, Ewan S Douglas, Kian Milani +8

The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB) is a high-contrast imaging testbed built to demonstrate starlight suppression techniques at visible wavelengths in a space-like vacuum e…