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Upgrading LBTI/NOMIC with a quadruple annular groove phase mask and GeoSnap detector for imaging nearby, habitable-zone exoplanets
Kevin Wagner, Manny Montoya, Steve Ertel +32
The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer (LBTI)'s Nulling-Optimized Mid-Infrared Camera (NOMIC) is among the most capable thermal-infrared imaging systems available for high-co…
The eXtreme Wavefront Control Toolkit: High-Contrast Imaging Instrument Control for Ground and Space-Based Coronagraphs
Jared R. Males, Joseph D. Long, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert +16
We present the eXtreme Wavefront Control Toolkit (XWCTk) instrument control software system developed for the MagAO-X extreme adaptive optics (ExAO) instrument. The XWCTk is built…
Freezing the speckles: focal plane wavefront sensing with the spatially-clipped self-coherent camera
Joshua Liberman, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Jared R. Males +8
The next generation of Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs) and the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) require active speckle suppression to directly image exo-Earths. Focal plane wav…
The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB): 11. Modeling and correction of chromatic aberrations
Kyle Van Gorkom, Ramya M. Anche, Saraswathi Kalyani Subramanian +12
The space coronagraph optical bench (SCoOB) is a high contrast imaging testbed designed to demonstrate starlight suppression techniques at visible wavelengths in a space-like vacuu…
The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB): X. Dark zone maintenance
Saraswathi Kalyani Subramanian, Kyle Van Gorkom, Ramya Anche +12
The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB) is a vacuum high contrast imaging testbed designed to demonstrate starlight suppression at optical wavelengths and obtain contrasts bett…
Design and modeling of an oblique incidence dichroic mirror for a high contrast imaging system
Joanna Rosenbluth, Ramya Anche, Kyle Van Gorkom +4
The proposed Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) aims to detect and characterize Earth-like planets around Sun-like stars from the ultraviolet to the infrared using high-contrast im…
Connecting Polarization to Exoplanet Yield Calculations for HWO
Jaren N. Ashcraft, Scott D. Will, Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer +6
The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) aims to enable the detection and characterization of Earth-like planets around Sun-like stars to search for possible signs of life elsewhere…
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…
Single-shot focal plane wavefront sensing with the spatially-clipped self-coherent camera
Joshua Liberman, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Jared R. Males +2
The Habitable Worlds Observatory requires active speckle suppression to directly image Earth-like exoplanets. Focal plane wavefront sensing and control allows us to detect, and sub…
Optical design and polarimetric performance of a SmallSat UV polarimeter to study interstellar dust: PUFFINS
Ramya M Anche, Hyukmo Kang, Kyle Van Gorkom +19
The Polarimetry in the Ultraviolet to Find Features in INterStellar dust (PUFFINS) is a SmallSat mission concept designed to obtain ultraviolet (UV) spectropolarimetric observation…
The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB): 8. end-to-end numerical modeling of the testbed to estimate the contrast limits
Ramya M Anche, Kyle Van Gorkom, Kian Milani +9
The space coronagraph optical bench (SCoOB) at the University of Arizona is a high-contrast imaging testbed designed to operate in a vacuum to obtain a contrast better than 1e-8 in…
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…
Polarization aberration modeling of internal occulters for coronagraphs
Emory L. Jenkins, A J Eldorado Riggs, Ewan S. Douglas +3
The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is a flagship mission concept proposing to characterize earth-like exoplanets at high contrast with a coronagraph instrument. The most in-dep…
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…
Polarization aberrations in next-generation Giant Segmented Mirror Telescopes (GSMTs). II. Influence of segment-to-segment coating variations on high-contrast imaging and polarimetry
Jaren N. Ashcraft, Ramya M. Anche, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert +8
Direct exo-Earth imaging is a key science goal for astronomy in the next decade. This ambitious task imposes a target contrast of ~10^-7 at wavelengths from I to J-band. In our pri…
Real-time control and data standardization on various telescopes and benches
Nour Skaf, Rebecca Jensen-Clem, Aaron Hunter +19
Real-time control (RTC) is pivotal for any Adaptive Optics (AO) system, including high-contrast imaging of exoplanets and circumstellar environments. It is the brain of the AO syst…
Optical alignment of contamination-sensitive Far-Ultraviolet spectrographs for Aspera SmallSat mission
Aafaque R. Khan, Erika Hamden, Haeun Chung +48
Aspera is a NASA Astrophysics Pioneers SmallSat mission designed to study diffuse OVI emission from the warm-hot phase gas in the halos of nearby galaxies. Its payload consists of…
The space coronagraph optical bench (SCoOB): 3. Mueller matrix polarimetry of a coronagraphic exit pupil
Jaren N. Ashcraft, Ewan S. Douglas, Ramya M. Anche +4
High-contrast imaging in the next decade aims to image exoplanets at smaller angular separations and deeper contrasts than ever before. A problem that has recently garnered attenti…
Black Silicon BRDF and Polarization for Coronagraphic Pupil Masks
Emory L. Jenkins, Ramya M. Anche, Kyle J. Van Gorkom +2
Future space observatories will likely have segmented primaries, causing diffraction effects that reduce coronagraph performance. Reflective binary pupil apodizer masks can mitigat…
The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB): 5. End-to-end simulations of polarization aberrations
Ramya M Anche, Kyle J. Van Gorkom, Jaren N. Ashcraft +4
Polarization aberrations originating from the telescope and high-contrast imaging instrument optics introduce polarization-dependent speckles and associated errors in the image pla…
The space coronagraph optical bench (SCoOB): 4. vacuum performance of a high contrast imaging testbed
Kyle Van Gorkom, Ewan S Douglas, Kian Milani +8
The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB) is a high-contrast imaging testbed built to demonstrate starlight suppression techniques at visible wavelengths in a space-like vacuum e…
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.…
Modeling and performance analysis of Implicit Electric Field Conjugation with two deformable mirrors applied to the Roman Coronagraph
Kian Milani, Ewan S. Douglas, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert +1
High-order wavefront sensing and control (HOWFSC) is key to create a dark hole region within the coronagraphic image plane where high contrasts are achieved. The Roman Coronagraph…