Eliminating poisson's spot with linear programming

Robert J. Vanderbei

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-88843-9_24

Eliminating poisson's spot with linear programming

Robert J. Vanderbei

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A leading design concept for NASA's upcoming planet-finding space telescope involves placing an occulter 72,000 km in front of a 4-m telescope. The purpose of the occulter is to block the bright starlight thereby enabling the telescope to take pictures of planets orbiting the blocked star. Unfortunately, diffraction effects prevent a simple circular occulter from providing a sufficiently dark shadow-a specially shaped occulter is required. In this paper, I explain how to reduce this shape-optimization problem to a large-scale linear programming problem that can be solved with modern LP tools.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	455-467
Number of pages	13
Journal	Operations Research/ Computer Science Interfaces Series
Volume	47
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-88843-9_24
State	Published - 2009

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General Computer Science
Management Science and Operations Research

Keywords

Extrasolar planets
Highcontrast imaging
Large scale optimization
Linear programming
Optical design

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