Behind the coronagraphic mask

Details Behind the coronagraphic mask Behind the coronagraphic mask

Oct 2010

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Proceedings of the conference In the Spirit of Lyot 2010: Direct Detection of Exoplanets and Circumstellar Disks. October 25 -

Physics

Optics

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The detection of high contrast companions at small angular separation appears feasible in conventional direct images using the self-calibration properties of interferometric observable quantities. In the high-Strehl regime, soon to be available thanks to the coming generation of extreme Adaptive Optics systems on ground based telescopes, and already available from space, quantities comparable to the closure-phase that are used with great success in non-redundant masking inteferometry, can be extracted from direct images, even taken with a redundant aperture. These new phase-noise immune observable quantities, called kernel-phases, are determined a-priori from the knowledge of the geometry of the pupil only. Re-analysis of archive data acquired with the Hubble Space Telescope NICMOS instrument, using this new kernel-phase algorithm, demonstrates the power of the method, and its ability to detect companions at the resolution limit and beyond, giving a better idea of what is happening "behind the coronagraphic mask".

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