@inproceedings{cf2e31f3cb4749b49f39ba21bf02b531,
title = "ACCESS - A NASA mission concept study of an actively-corrected coronagraph for exoplanet system studies",
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.",
keywords = "Active optics, Coronagraphs, Exoplanets, Space astronomy",
author = "John Trauger and Karl Stapelfeldt and Wesley Traub and Curt Henry and John Krist and Dimitri Mawet and Dwight Moody and Peggy Park and Laurent Pueyo and Eugene Serabyn and Stuart Shaklan and Olivier Guyon and Jeremy Kasdin and David Spergel and Robert Vanderbei and Ruslan Belikov and Geoff Marcy and Brown, {Robert A.} and Jean Schneider and Bruce Woodgate and Gary Matthews and Robert Egerman and Ronald Polidan and Chuck Lillie and Mark Ealey and Thomas Price",
year = "2008",
doi = "10.1117/12.789119",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9780819472205",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
booktitle = "Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008",
note = "Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter ; Conference date: 23-06-2008 Through 28-06-2008",
}