1. High-Spectral Resolution Dark Holes: Concept, Results, and Promise
- Author
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Thompson, William, Johnson, Adam B., Marois, Christian, Lardière, Olivier, Grandmont, Frédéric, Hardy, Tim, Caputa, Kris, Bradley, Colin, and Singh, Garima
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics - Abstract
Next generation high contrast imaging instruments face a challenging trade off: they will be required to deliver data with high spectral resolution at a relatively fast cadence (minutes) and across a wide field of view (arcseconds). For instruments that employ focal plane wavefront sensing and therefore require super-Nyquist sampling, these requirements cannot simultaneously be met with a traditional lenslet integral field spectrograph (IFU). For the SPIDERS pathfinder instrument, we are demonstrating an imaging Fourier transform spectrograph (IFTS) that offers a different set of tradeoffs than a lenslet IFU, delivering up to R20,000 spectral resolution across a dark hole. We present preliminary results from the SPIDERS IFTS including a chromaticity analysis of its dark hole and demonstrate a spectral differential imaging (SDI) improvement of up to 40 $\times$, and a first application of spectro-coherent differential imaging, combining both coherent differential imaging (CDI) and SDI., Comment: Submitted to the proceedings of adaptive optics for extremely large telescopes 7
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- 2023