Trauger, John and Stapelfeldt, Karl and Traub, Wesley and Henry, Curt and Krist, John and Mawet, Dimitri and Moody, Dwight and Park, Peggy and Pueyo, Laurent and Serabyn, Eugene and Shaklan, Stuart (2008) ACCESS – a NASA mission concept study of an Actively-Corrected Coronagraph for Exoplanet System Studies. In: Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter. Proceedings of SPIE. No.7010. Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) , Bellingham, WA, Art. No. 701029. ISBN 9780819472205. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20150527-084545585
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ACCESS (Actively-Corrected Coronagraph for Exoplanet System Studies) develops the science and engineering case for an investigation of exosolar giant planets, super-earths, exo-earths, and dust/debris fields that would be accessible to a medium-scale NASA mission. The study begins with the observation that coronagraph architectures of all types (other than the external occulter) call for an exceptionally stable telescope and spacecraft, as well as active wavefront correction with one or more deformable mirrors (DMs). During the study, the Lyot, shaped pupil, PIAA, and a number of other coronagraph architectures will all be evaluated on a level playing field that considers science capability (including contrast at the inner working angle (IWA), throughput efficiency, and spectral bandwidth), engineering readiness (including maturity of technology, instrument complexity, and sensitivity to wavefront errors), and mission cost so that a preferred coronagraph architecture can be selected and developed for a medium-class mission.
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Additional Information: | © 2008 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). July 14, 2008. | ||||||||
Subject Keywords: | coronagraphs, exoplanets, space astronomy, active optics | ||||||||
Series Name: | Proceedings of SPIE | ||||||||
Issue or Number: | 7010 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1117/12.789119 | ||||||||
Record Number: | CaltechAUTHORS:20150527-084545585 | ||||||||
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Official Citation: | John Trauger ; Karl Stapelfeldt ; Wesley Traub ; Curt Henry ; John Krist, et al. "ACCESS: a NASA mission concept study of an Actively Corrected Coronagraph for Exoplanet System Studies", Proc. SPIE 7010, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter, 701029 (July 14, 2008); doi:10.1117/12.789119 | ||||||||
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Deposited By: | Ruth Sustaita | ||||||||
Deposited On: | 27 May 2015 18:16 | ||||||||
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