| Autor: |
Peter Petrone, Elliot Burke, Samuel Pellicori, Andrew Eberhardt, Matthew R. Bolcar, John DeVries, Tyler McCabe, Teresa Sheets, Jack Agolli, Michael A. Helmbrecht, Brian Hicks, Ron Shiri, Thomas E. Dillon, Andrew Lea, James P. Corsetti |
| Rok vydání: |
2017 |
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| Zdroj: |
Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets VIII. |
| Popis: |
"This work presents updates to the coronagraph and telescope components of the Segmented Aperture Interfer-ometric Nulling Testbed (SAINT). The project pairs an actively-controlled macro-scale segmented mirror withthe Visible Nulling Coronagraph (VNC) towards demonstrating capabilities for the future space observatoriesneeded to directly detect and characterize a significant sample of Earth-sized worlds around nearby stars inthe quest for identifying those which may be habitable and possibly harbor life. Efforts to improve the VNCwavefront control optics and mechanisms towards repeating narrowband results are described. A narrative isprovided for the design of new optical components aimed at enabling broadband performance. Initial work withthe hardware and software interface for controlling the segmented telescope mirror is also presented." |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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