3 papers
astro-ph.IM2025
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…
astro-ph.IM2025
Stray and Scattered Light Considerations in a Non-contiguous Array of Commercial CMOS Sensors in a Space Mission
Maggie Y. Kautz, Douglas Kelly, Heejoo Choi +6
Recent advances in CMOS technology have potential to significantly increase the performance, at low-cost, of an astronomical space telescope. Arrays of sensors in space missions ar…
astro-ph.IM2025
Stages of commissioning alignment for three-mirror anastigmat (TMA) telescopes
Solvay Blomquist, Heejoo Choi, Hyukmo Kang +7
Reliable, autonomously, deployment of telescopes enables a wide range of possible science cases. In this paper, we present a method for multi-stage telescope alignment with a simpl…