Imaging faint brown dwarf companions close to bright stars with a small, well-corrected telescope aperture

E. Serabyn, D. Mawet, E. Bloemhof +4

We have used our 1.6 m diameter off-axis well-corrected sub-aperture (WCS) on the Palomar Hale telescope in concert with a small inner-working-angle (IWA) phase-mask coronagraph to…