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most citedThe James Webb Space Telescope Mission

490 citations · 1.1k across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

astro-ph.IM2023★ 6 cited

A Year of Wavefront Sensing with JWST in Flight: Cycle 1 Telescope Monitoring and Maintenance Summary

Charles-Philippe Lajoie, Matthew Lallo, Marcio Meléndez +7

We summarize JWST's measured telescope performance across science Cycle 1. The stability of segments alignments is typically better than 10 nanometers RMS between measurements ever…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 490 cited

The James Webb Space Telescope Mission

Jonathan P. Gardner, John C. Mather, Randy Abbott +1004

Twenty-six years ago a small committee report, building on earlier studies, expounded a compelling and poetic vision for the future of astronomy, calling for an infrared-optimized…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 6 cited

Low-order wavefront control using a Zernike sensor through Lyot coronagraphs for exoplanet imaging: II. Concurrent operation with stroke minimization

R. Pourcelot, E. H. Por, M. N'Diaye +16

Wavefront sensing and control (WFSC) will play a key role in improving the stability of future large segmented space telescopes while relaxing the thermo-mechanical constraints on…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 122 cited

The James Webb Space Telescope Mission: Optical Telescope Element Design, Development, and Performance

Michael W. McElwain, Lee D. Feinberg, Marshall D. Perrin +126

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large, infrared space telescope that has recently started its science program which will enable breakthroughs in astrophysics and planeta…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 440 cited

The Science Performance of JWST as Characterized in Commissioning

Jane Rigby, Marshall Perrin, Michael McElwain +623

This paper characterizes the actual science performance of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), as determined from the six month commissioning period. We summarize the performanc…

astro-ph.IM2022

Low-order wavefront control using a Zernike sensor through Lyot coronagraphs for exoplanet imaging

R. Pourcelot, M. N'Diaye, E. H. Por +19

Combining large segmented space telescopes, coronagraphy and wavefront control methods is a promising solution to produce a dark hole (DH) region in the coronagraphic image of an o…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 3 cited

Experimental validation of active control of low-order aberrations with a Zernike sensor through a Lyot coronagraph

Raphaël Pourcelot, Mamadou N'Diaye, Emiel H. Por +11

Future large segmented space telescopes and their coronagraphic instruments are expected to provide the resolution and sensitivity to observe Earth-like planets with a 10^10 contra…

astro-ph.IM2020

Estimating low-order aberrations through a Lyot coronagraph with a Zernike wavefront sensor for exoplanet imaging

Raphaël Pourcelot, Mamadou N'Diaye, Greg Brady +13

Imaging exo-Earths is an exciting but challenging task because of the 10^-10 contrast ratio between these planets and their host star at separations narrower than 100 mas. Large se…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 12 cited

High-contrast imager for complex aperture telescopes (HiCAT): 5. first results with segmented-aperture coronagraph and wavefront control

Remi Soummer, Gregory R. Brady, Keira Brooks +19

Segmented telescopes are a possibility to enable large-aperture space telescopes for the direct imaging and spectroscopy of habitable worlds. However, the complexity of their apert…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 2 cited

High-contrast Imager for Complex Aperture Telescopes (HiCAT): 6. Software Control Infrastructure and Calibration

Christopher Moriarty, Keira Brooks, Remi Soummer +5

High contrast imaging using coronagraphy is one of the main avenues to enable the search for life on extrasolar Earth analogs. The HiCAT testbed aims to demonstrate coronagraphy an…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 1 cited

Phase-Retrieval-Based Wavefront Metrology for High Contrast Coronagraphy

Gregory R. Brady, Christopher Moriarty, Peter Petrone +5

We discuss the use of parametric phase-diverse phase retrieval as an in-situ high-fidelity wavefront measurement method to characterize and optimize the transmitted wavefront of a…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 2 cited

James Webb Space Telescope Optical Simulation Testbed V: Wide-field phase retrieval assessment

Iva Laginja, Greg Brady, Remi Soummer +14

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Optical Simulation Testbed (JOST) is a hardware simulator for wavefront sensing and control designed to produce JWST-like images. A model of t…

physics.atom-ph2013★ 2 cited

Atom trapping in a bottle beam created by a diffractive optical element

V. V. Ivanov, J. A. Isaacs, M. Saffman +6

A diffractive optical element (DOE) has been fabricated for creating blue detuned atomic bottle beam traps. The DOE integrates several diffractive lenses for trap creation and imag…

physics.ins-det2010★ 34 cited

Integration of fluorescence collection optics with a microfabricated surface electrode ion trap

Gregory R. Brady, A. Robert Ellis, David L. Moehring +11

We have successfully demonstrated an integrated optical system for collecting the fluorescence from a trapped ion. The system, consisting of an array of transmissive, dielectric mi…