most citedChasing rainbows and ocean glints: Inner working angle constraints for the Habitable Worlds Observatory

38 citations · 61 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

Comparative laboratory study of electric field conjugation algorithms

Niyati Desai, Axel Potier, Susan F. Redmond +5

Future space telescope coronagraph instruments hinge on the integration of high-performance masks and precise wavefront sensing and control techniques to create dark holes essentia…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 38 cited

Chasing rainbows and ocean glints: Inner working angle constraints for the Habitable Worlds Observatory

Sophia R. Vaughan, Timothy D. Gebhard, Kimberly Bott +41

NASA is engaged in planning for a Habitable Worlds Observatory (HabWorlds), a coronagraphic space mission to detect rocky planets in habitable zones and establish their habitabilit…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 13 cited

Laboratory demonstration of the wrapped staircase scalar vortex coronagraph

Niyati Desai, Garreth J. Ruane, Jorge D. Llop-Sayson +5

Of the over 5000 exoplanets that have been detected, only about a dozen have ever been directly imaged. Earth-like exoplanets are on the order of 10 billion times fainter than thei…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 6 cited

Topological Designs for Scalar Vortex Coronagraphs

Niyati Desai, Jorge Llop-Sayson, Arielle Bertrou-Cantou +4

The detection and characterization of Earth-like exoplanets around Sun-like stars for future flagship missions requires coronagraphs to achieve contrasts on the order of 1e-10 at c…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 3 cited

High Contrast Demonstrations of Novel Scalar Vortex Coronagraph Designs at the High Contrast Spectroscopy Testbed

Niyati Desai, Jorge Llop-Sayson, Nemanja Jovanovic +4

For direct imaging of exoplanets, Scalar Vortex Coronagraphs (SVCs) are an attractive alternative to the popularly used Vector Vortex Coronagraphs (VVCs). This is primarily because…