Statistics of pinned speckles in direct and coronagraphic high contrast imaging

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5490, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 495-503

  Soummer, R ^a   Aime, C ^b  

^a STScI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive Optics; Coronagraphy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HOLOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPECKLE; WAVEFRONTS;

CORNAGRAPHY; LIGHT INTENSITY; MOMENT GENERATING FUNCTION (MGF); POISSON-MANDEL TRANSFORM;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 11144318575     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551985     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (20)

1. E. E. Bloemhof, R. G. Dekany, M. Troy, and B. R. Oppenheimer, "Behavior of Remnant Speckles in an Adaptively Corrected Imaging System," ApJL 558, pp. L71-L74, Sept. 2001.
2. A. Sivaramakrishnan, J. P. Lloyd, P. E. Hodge, and B. A. Macintosh, "Speckle Decorrelation and Dynamic Range in Speckle Noise-limited Imaging," ApJL 581, pp. L59-L62, Dec. 2002.
3. E. E. Bloemhof, "Suppression of Speckle Noise by Speckle Pinning in Adaptive Optics," ApJL 582, pp. L59-L62, Jan. 2003.
4. M. D. Perrin, A. Sivaramakrishnan, R. B. Makidon, B. R. Oppenheimer, and J. R. Graham, "The Structure of High Strehl Ratio Point-Spread Functions," APJ 596, pp. 702-712, Oct. 2003.
5. C. Aime and R. Soummer, "Astronomy with high contrast imaging: from planetary systems to active galactic nuclei," EAS Publications Series, Volume 8, 2003. Astronomy with High Contrast Imaging, 13-16 May, 2002 in Nice, France. Edited by C. Aime and R. Soummer. , 2003.
6. B. Oppenheimer, A. Digby, L. Newburgh, D. Brenner, M. Shara, J. Mey, C. Mandeville, R. Makidon, A. Sivaramakrishnan, R. Soummer, J. Graham, P. Kalas, M. Perrin, L. Roberts, J. Kuhn, K. Whitman, and J. Lloyd, "The Lyot Project: Toward Exoplanet Imaging and Spectroscopy," in Proc. SPIE (same volume), 2004.
7. L. Jolissaint, "Paola simulation software," 2004.
8. J. Goodman, "statistical properties of laser speckle patterns, " in topics in applied physics: laser speckle and related phenomena, Dainty Ed., springer verlag berlin, 1975.
9. M. P. Cagigal and V. F. Canales, "Speckle statisticsin partially corrected wave fronts," Optics Letters 23, pp. 1072-1074, July 1998.
10. V. F. Canales and M. P. Cagigal, "Rician Distribution to Describe Speckle Statistics in Adaptive Optics," AO 38, pp. 766-771, Feb. 1999.
11. V. F. Canales and M. P. Cagigal, "Photon statistics in partially compensated wave fronts," Optical Society of America Journal 16, pp. 2550-2554, Oct. 1999.
12. M. P. Cagigal and V. F. Canales, "Residual phase variance in partial correction: application to the estimate of the light intensity statistics," JOSA 17, pp. 1312-1318, July 2000.
13. V. F. Canales and M. P. Cagigal, "Non-Gaussian speckle statistics in adaptive-optics partial compensation," Optics Letters 26, pp. 737-739, May 2001.
14. C. Aime and A. Soummer, "Influence of speckle and Poisson noise on exoplanet detection with a coronagraph," in EUSIPCO conference, Sept. 2004.
15. J. Goodman, Introduction to Fourier Optics, Mac Graw Hill, 1996.
16. J. Goodman, Statistical Optics, John Wiley & sons, New York, 1985.
17. C. Aime, "Analysis of the technique of dark speckles for detection of exo-planets," Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics 2, pp. 411-421, Sept. 2000.
18. A. Labeyrie, "Images of exo-planets obtainable from dark speckles in adaptive telescopes.," A&A 298, pp. 544+, June 1995.
19. B. Oppenheimer, "The Lyot Project," in preparation , 2004.
20. B. R. Oppenheimer, A. Sivaramakrishnan, and R. B. Makidon, "Imaging Exoplanets: The Role of Small Telescopes," in The Future of Small Telescopes In The New Millennium. Volume III - Science in the Shadow of Giants, pp. 155+, June 2003.