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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer: concept and phased implementation

Mawet, D., Wizinowich, P., Dekany, R., Chun, M., Hall, D., Cetre, S., Guyon, O., Wallace, J. K., Bowler, B., Liu, M., Ruane, G., Serabyn, E., Bartos, R., Wang, J., Vasisht, G., Fitzgerald, M., Skemer, A., Ireland, M., Fucik, J., Fortney, J., Crossfield, I., Hu, R., Benneke, B. 26 July 2016 (has links)
The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC) is a cost-effective upgrade path to the W.M. Keck observatory (WMKO) adaptive optics (AO) system, building on the lessons learned from first and second-generation extreme AO (ExA0) coronagraphs. KPIC will explore new scientific niches in exoplanet science, while maturing critical technologies and systems for future ground-based (TMT, FELT, GMT) and space-based planet imagers (HabEx, LUVOIR). The advent of fast low-noise IR cameras (IR-APD, MKIDS, electron injectors), the rapid maturing of efficient wavefront sensing (WFS) techniques (Pyramid, Zernike), small inner working angle (IWA) coronagraphs (e.g., vortex) and associated low-order wavefront sensors (LOWFS), as well as recent breakthroughs in high contrast high resolution spectroscopy, open new direct exoplanet exploration avenues that are complementary to planet imagers such as VLT-SPHERE and the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI). For instance, the search and detailed characterization of planetary systems on solar-system scales around late-type stars, mostly beyond SPHERE and GPI's reaches, can be initiated now at WMKO.
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Coronographie à masque adaptatif pour imagerie et détection à haute dynamique / Adaptive Mask Coronagraph for High Dynamic Range Imaging and Detection

Bourget, Pierre 05 December 2014 (has links)
L’imagerie à très haute dynamique s’applique à de nombreux domaines de recherche en astronomie et astrophysique. Cette problématique observationnelle est abordée sur plusieurs fronts par de nombreuses techniques complémentaires : coronographie, interferométrie, optique adaptative, controle de front d’onde et discrimination des speckles. La combinaison de celles ci permet d’atteindre un haut contraste avec pour ultime objectif l’imagerie d’exoplanètes et l’étude de l’environnement stellaire. Le travail présenté dans ce manuscrit se focalise sur la coronographie et plus particulièrement sur l’optimisation active du procedé d’occultation en fonction du contexte observationnel.La première partie de cette recherche traite de l’observation d’objets résolus par le développement d’un masque focal de Lyot de diamètre variable. La deuxième partie s’applique à étendre le concept du masque focal adaptatif au masque de phase de type Roddier pour l’observation de l’environnement proche d’objets non résolus. L’utilisation des propriétés des cristaux liquides permet de réaliser un déphasage par rotation de polarisation et une modulation de transmission à l’extérieur du masque. Cette modulation permet un controle actif d’optimisation de l’interférence pour une adéquation du masque au contexte observationnel : longueur d’onde, morphologie d’image et défauts intrinsèques au masque, agitation atmosphérique. La dernière partie de ce manuscrit ébauche de nouvelles perspectives quant à la possibilité d’une imagerie à haut contraste. La modulation temporelle de phase transmise par un masque focal adaptatif est mise à profit par l’utilisation des méthodes de détection synchrone. / High contrast imaging of extra-solar planets and environments of bright astro- physical objects in general, such as stars, active galactic nuclei or objects of the Solar System is a challenging task. Different approaches are needed if the bright region to occult is optically resolved or not. We present the Adaptive Mask concept, observations on sky and numerical simulations show the usefulness of the proposed methods to optimize the efficiency of the coronagraphs for optically resolved or non resolved objects. Accessing small IWA is considered as an edge as it provides substantial scientific and technical advantages. One of the difficulties of accessing small IWA is that coronagraphs become very sensitive to low-order aberrations such as tip-tilt. Our original approach aims at integrating the small IWA capability and the mitigation of sensitivity to low-order aberrations within the coronagraph itself. Our concept is applicable to both low and high Strehl regimes, corresponding to current and next generation AO systems. The adaptive coronagraph can adapt dynamically, in quasi real time, to adjust to the observing conditions to deliver a stable and optimized contrast at the science image level. The mask adaptability both in size, phase and amplitude also compensates for manufacturing errors of the mask itself, and potentially for chromatic effects. The mask adaptability concept using a local phase modulation in the focal plane allows synchronous modulation for high dynamic range synchronous detection of a faint target immersed in a background. The coherence of the speckles with the central star is used to discriminate them from proper companions.

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