Tradeoff between segment density and IWA for high-contrast imaging of exoplanets with a large segmented space mission

Lucie Leboulleux, Raphaël Pourcelot, Laurent Pueyo +1

Imaging Earth-like exoplanets with coronagraphs on future large segmented space telescopes such as the Habitable Worlds Observatory requires contrasts down to $10^{-10}$ at separat…