ACCESS - A NASA mission concept study of an actively-corrected coronagraph for exoplanet system studies

John Trauger; Karl Stapelfeldt; Wesley Traub; Curt Henry; John Krist; Dimitri Mawet; Dwight Moody; Peggy Park; Laurent Pueyo; Eugene Serabyn; Stuart Shaklan; Olivier Guyon; Jeremy Kasdin; David Spergel; Robert Vanderbei; Ruslan Belikov; Geoff Marcy; Robert A. Brown; Jean Schneider; Bruce Woodgate; Gary Matthews; Robert Egerman; Ronald Polidan; Chuck Lillie; Mark Ealey; Thomas Price

doi:10.1117/12.789119

ACCESS - A NASA mission concept study of an actively-corrected coronagraph for exoplanet system studies

John Trauger, Karl Stapelfeldt, Wesley Traub, Curt Henry, John Krist, Dimitri Mawet, Dwight Moody, Peggy Park, Laurent Pueyo, Eugene Serabyn, Stuart Shaklan, Olivier Guyon, Jeremy Kasdin, David Spergel, Robert Vanderbei, Ruslan Belikov, Geoff Marcy, Robert A. Brown, Jean Schneider, Bruce WoodgateGary Matthews, Robert Egerman, Ronald Polidan, Chuck Lillie, Mark Ealey, Thomas Price

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008
Subtitle of host publication	Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.789119
State	Published - 2008
Event	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter - Marseille, France Duration: Jun 23 2008 → Jun 28 2008

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	7010
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X

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Other	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter
Country/Territory	France
City	Marseille
Period	6/23/08 → 6/28/08

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

Active optics
Coronagraphs
Exoplanets
Space astronomy

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Trauger, J., Stapelfeldt, K., Traub, W., Henry, C., Krist, J., Mawet, D., Moody, D., Park, P., Pueyo, L., Serabyn, E., Shaklan, S., Guyon, O., Kasdin, J., Spergel, D., Vanderbei, R., Belikov, R., Marcy, G., Brown, R. A., Schneider, J., ... Price, T. (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 [701029] (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 7010). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.789119

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ACCESS - A NASA mission concept study of an actively-corrected coronagraph for exoplanet system studies. / Trauger, John; Stapelfeldt, Karl; Traub, Wesley et al.

Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter. 2008. 701029 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 7010).

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