End to end simulation of AO-assisted coronagraphic differential imaging: Estimation of performance for SPHERE

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7015, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Boccaletti, Anthony ^a   Carbillet, Marcel ^b   Fusco, Thierry ^c   Mouillet, David ^d   Langlois, Maud ^e   Moutou, Claire ^e   Dohlen, Kjetil ^e  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^c Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales   (France)

^d LABORATOIRE D ASTROPHYSIQUE   (France)

^e AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Coronagraphy; Exoplanets; High contrast imaging

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX SYSTEMS; CORONAGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL ABERRATIONS; DUAL BAND; END-TO-END SIMULATION; EXOPLANET; EXOPLANETS; EXTRASOLAR GIANT PLANETS; HIGH CONTRAST; HIGH CONTRAST IMAGING; PLANET FINDERS; SUB-SYSTEMS;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STARS;

SPHERES;

EID: 54749141818     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789349     Document Type: Conference Paper

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