Apodized Pupil Lyot Coronagraphs for Arbitrary Apertures. II. Theoretical Properties and Application to Extremely Large Telescopes

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Apr 2009

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The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 695, Issue 1, pp. 695-706 (2009).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Instrumentation: High Angular Resolution

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We study the application of Lyot coronagraphy to future Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs), showing that Apodized Pupil Lyot Coronagraphs enable high-contrast imaging for exoplanet detection and characterization with ELTs. We discuss the properties of the optimal pupil apodizers for this application (generalized prolate spheroidal functions). The case of a circular aperture telescope with a central obstruction is considered in detail, and we discuss the effects of primary mirror segmentation and secondary mirror support structures as a function of the occulting mask size. In most cases where inner working distance is critical, e.g., for exoplanet detection, these additional features do not alter the solutions derived with just the central obstruction, although certain applications such as quasar-host galaxy coronagraphic observations could benefit from designs that explicitly accomodate ELT spider geometries. We illustrate coronagraphic designs for several ELT geometries including ESO/OWL, the Thirty Mirror Telescope, the Giant Magellan Telescope, and describe numerical methods for generating these designs.

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