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astro-ph.IM2026

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…

astro-ph.IM2026

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 paper describes the Tiny Observatory for Telescope Optimization (TOTO), an optical testbed used to evaluate autonomous alignment algorithms—Stochastic Parallel Gradient Descent…

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…