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astro-ph.IM2023

Remote Measurement of Heliostat Reflectivity with the Backward Gazing Procedure

Francois Henault

Concentrated solar power is a promising technique enabling renewable energy production with large scale solar power plants in the near future. Estimating quantitatively the reflect…

astro-ph.IM2022

Lord of the Ring Gratings: Their use as image plane filters for coronagraphy

Francçois Henault

Coronagraphy is an efficient technique for identifying and characterizing extra-solar planets orbiting in the habitable zone of their parent star. An important family of coronagrap…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 1 cited

Nulling interferometry in space does not require a rotating telescope array

Francois Henault

Space borne nulling interferometry in the mid-infrared waveband is one of the most promising techniques for characterizing the atmospheres of extra-solar planets orbiting in the ha…

astro-ph.IM2022

Field of View and contrast limitations of stellar interferometers. A quick review

Francois Henault

Field of View (FoV) and contrast limitations of stellar interferometers have been the scope of numerous publications for more than thirty years. Recently, this topic regained some…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 7 cited

MAORY: A Multi-conjugate Adaptive Optics RelaY for ELT

Paolo Ciliegi, Guido Agapito, Matteo Aliverti +73

MAORY is the adaptive optics module for ELT providing two gravity invariant ports with the same optical quality for two different client instruments. It enable high angular resolut…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 172 cited

SPIRou: nIR velocimetry & spectropolarimetry at the CFHT

J. -F. Donati, D. Kouach, C. Moutou +63

This paper presents an overview of SPIRou, the new-generation near-infrared spectropolarimeter / precision velocimeter recently installed on the 3.6-m Canada-France-Hawaii Telescop…