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20162025
most citedWavefront Sensing in Space: Flight Demonstration II of the PICTURE Sounding Rocket Payload

19 citations · 23 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

astro-ph.IM2025

Progress toward a demonstration of high contrast imaging at ultraviolet wavelengths

Kyle Van Gorkom, Ramya M. Anche, Christopher B. Mendillo +9

NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) aims to achieve starlight suppression to the level for the detection and spectral characterization of Earth-like exoplanets. Br…

astro-ph.IM2025

The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB): 7. design, fabrication, and first light for a self-coherent camera

Kevin Derby, Kian Milani, Grace C. Hathaway +10

The 2020 Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics tasked future space observatories with the goal of detecting and characterizing a large sample of Earth-like exoplanets. To ac…

astro-ph.IM2025

Performance predictions and contrast limits for an ultraviolet high contrast imaging testbed

Kyle Van Gorkom, Ramya M. Anche, Christopher B. Mendillo +7

NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) concept and the 2020 Decadal Survey's recommendation to develop a large space telescope to "detect and characterize Earth-like extrasolar…

astro-ph.IM2024

Optical modeling for the evaluation of HOWFSC on embedded processors

Kian Milani, Ewan Douglas, Leonid Pogorelyuk +5

The correction of quasi-static wavefront errors within a coronagraphic optical system will be a key challenge to overcome in order to directly image exoplanets in reflected light.…

astro-ph.IM2023

Integrated modeling of wavefront sensing and control for space telescopes utilizing active and adaptive optics

Kevin Z. Derby, Kian Milani, Solvay Blomquist +9

Extreme wavefront correction is required for coronagraphs on future space telescopes to reach 1e-8 or better starlight suppression for the direct imaging and characterization of ex…

astro-ph.IM2020

Microelectromechanical deformable mirror development for high-contrast imaging, part 1: miniaturized, flight-capable control electronics

Eduardo Bendek, Garreth Ruane, Camilo Mejia Prada +3

Deformable mirrors (DMs) are a critical technology to enable coronagraphic direct imaging of exoplanets with current and planned ground - and space-based telescopes as well as futu…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 19 cited

Wavefront Sensing in Space: Flight Demonstration II of the PICTURE Sounding Rocket Payload

Ewan S. Douglas, Christopher B. Mendillo, Timothy A. Cook +2

A NASA sounding rocket for high-contrast imaging with a visible nulling coronagraph, the PICTURE payload, has made two suborbital attempts to observe the warm dust disk inferred ar…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 4 cited

Wavefront Sensing in Space from the PICTURE-B Sounding Rocket

Ewan S. Douglas, Christopher B. Mendillo, Timothy A. Cook +2

A NASA sounding rocket for high contrast imaging with a visible nulling coronagraph, the Planet Imaging Coronagraphic Technology Using a Reconfigurable Experimental Base (PICTURE-B…