High contrast experiment of an AO-free coronagraph with a checkerboard pupil mask

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 480, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 899-903

  Enya, K ^a   Abe, L ^b   Tanaka, S ^a,c   Nakagawa, T ^a   Haze, K ^a,d   Sato, T ^e   Wakayama, T ^e  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Instrumentation: high angular resolution; Methods: laboratory; Techniques: miscellaneous

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; SPACE FLIGHT; WAVEFRONTS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS (AO); HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION;

PLANETS;

EID: 41449104774     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20078627     Document Type: Article

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