2 papers
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
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…