Comparison of coronagraphs for high contrast imaging in the context of Extremely Large Telescopes

Details Comparison of coronagraphs for high contrast imaging in the context of Extremely Large Telescopes Comparison of coronagraphs for high contrast imaging in the context of Extremely Large Telescopes

2008-09-17

arxiv.org/abs/0809.2876v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, 6 figures, Accepted for publication in A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:200810650

We compare coronagraph concepts and investigate their behavior and suitability for planet finder projects with Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs, 30-42 meters class telescopes). For this task, we analyze the impact of major error sources that occur in a coronagraphic telescope (central obscuration, secondary support, low-order segment aberrations, segment reflectivity variations, pointing errors) for phase, amplitude and interferometric type coronagraphs. This analysis is performed at two different levels of the detection process: under residual phase left uncorrected by an eXtreme Adaptive Optics system (XAO) for a large range of Strehl ratio and after a general and simple model of speckle calibration, assuming common phase aberrations between the XAO and the coronagraph (static phase aberrations of the instrument) and non-common phase aberrations downstream of the coronagraph (differential aberrations provided by the calibration unit). We derive critical parameters that each concept will have to cope with by order of importance. We evidence three coronagraph categories as function of the accessible angular separation and proposed optimal one in each case. Most of the time amplitude concepts appear more favorable and specifically, the Apodized Pupil Lyot Coronagraph gathers the adequate characteristics to be a baseline design for ELTs.

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