Dual Purpose Lyot Coronagraph Masks for Simultaneous High-Contrast Imaging and High-Resolution Wavefront Sensing

Garreth Ruane, J. Kent Wallace, A J Eldorado Riggs +8

Directly imaging Earth-sized exoplanets with a visible-light coronagraph instrument on a space telescope will require a system that can achieve $\sim 10^{-10}$ raw contrast and main…