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High contrast experiment of an AO-free coronagraph with a checkerboard pupil mask

2008/01/25 by K. Enya, Keigo Enya, Lyu Abe +10
Physics and Astronomy · #Adaptive optics #Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing #Aperture (computer memory) #Apodization #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics #Coronagraph #Deformable mirror #Exoplanet #Grism #Optics #Physics #Planet #Primary mirror #Secondary mirror #Speckle pattern #Stars #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #Telescope #Wavefront #astro-ph.IM

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20078627

published as A&A, 480, 899 (2008) · 13 pages, 6 figures

openalex publication_date 2008/01/25 · arxiv created 2011/08/16 · arxiv updated 2011/08/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Context.A high contrast coronagraph is expected to provide one of the promising ways to directly observe extra-solar planets. We present the newest results of our laboratory experiment investigating “rigid” coronagraph with a binary shaped checkerboard pupil mask, which should offer a highly stable solution for telescopes without adaptive optics (AO) for wavefront correction in space missions.

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