5 papers
The Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program: early calibration plan and pilot observation of a companion
Julien H. Girard, Eric Cady, Neil T. Zimmerman +42
Roman is set to launch in weeks! The Coronagraph Instrument - technology pathfinder for future direct imaging missions - is ready to fly too. According to predictions, laboratory t…
The Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program: target database and tools
Dmitry Savransky, Rifah Tasnim, Saanika Choudhary +13
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch in Fall 2026, will carry the Coronagraph Instrument, which will, for the first time, demonstrate high-contrast imaging with act…
Early Architecture Concepts for the Habitable Worlds Observatory -- System Design, Modeling, and Analysis
Alice, Liu, Marie Levine +30
The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), NASA's next flagship science mission, follows in the tradition of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and other preceding great observator…
Habitable World Discovery and Characterization: Coronagraph Concept of Operations and Data Post-Processing
Michael W. McElwain, Dimitri Mawet, Jean-Baptiste Ruffio +11
The discovery and characterization of habitable worlds was the top scientific recommendation of the Astro2020 decadal survey and is a key objective of the Habitable Worlds Observat…
A parameter scan of dark zone maintenance for high-contrast imaging of exoplanets using theoretical and experimental implementations
Saikrishna Manojkumar, Christine L. Page, Leonid Pogorelyuk +14
Maintaining wavefront stability while directly imaging exoplanets over long exposure times is an ongoing problem in the field of high-contrast imaging. Robust and efficient high-or…