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Two-Mirror Apodization for High-Contrast Imaging
Wesley A. Traub, Robert J. Vanderbei
Direct detection of extrasolar planets will require imaging systems capable of unprecedented contrast. Apodized pupils provide an attractive way to achieve such contrast but they a…
Circularly Symmetric Apodization via Starshaped Masks
Robert J. Vanderbei, David N. Spergel, N. Jeremy Kasdin
Recently, we introduced a class of shaped pupil masks, called spiderweb masks, that produce point spread functions having annular dark zones. With such masks, a single image can be…
New Orbits for the n-Body Problem
R. J. Vanderbei
In this paper, we consider minimizing the action functional as a method for numerically discovering periodic solutions to the -body problem. With this method, we can find a larg…
Spiderweb Masks for High-Contrast Imaging
Robert J. Vanderbei, David N. Spergel, N. Jeremy Kasdin
Motivated by the desire to image exosolar planets, recent work by us and others has shown that high-contrast imaging can be achieved using specially shaped pupil masks. To date, th…