7 papers
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…
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…
Testing of machine learning wavefront sensing algorithms on the Tiny Observatory for Telescope Optimization (TOTO) testbed
Sanchit Sabhlok, Solvay A. Blomquist, Maggie Y +16
Phase retrieval techniques are utilized to correct low order wavefront aberrations originating from misalignments of the optical system in space based telescope concepts. Tradition…
Tiny Observatory for Telescope Optimization (TOTO): testing algorithms for autonomous on-orbit alignment for space-based telescope systems
Solvay A. Blomquist, Sanchit Sabhlok, Hyukmo Kang +11
The Tiny Observatory for Telescope Optimization (TOTO) is an optical testbed designed to evaluate the efficacy of autonomously driven alignment algorithms for space-based telescope…
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…