Dark zone maintenance for future coronagraphic space missions

Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave(2022)

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Directly imaging exoplanets requires long integration times when using a space-based coronagraphic instrument due to the small number of photons. Wavefront stability on the same timescale is of the utmost importance; a difficult feat in the presence of thermal and mechanical instabilities. In this paper, we demonstrate that dark zone maintenance (DZM) functions in the low signal-to-noise (SNR) regime similar to that expected for the Roman Space Telescope (RST) and the "large (similar to 6 m aperture) infrared/optical/ultraviolet (IR/O/UV) space telescope" recommended by the 2021 decadal survey. We develop low-photon experiments with tunable noise properties to provide a representative extrapolation. The experiments are performed on the High-contrast Imager for Complex Aperture Telescopes (HiCAT) at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). High-order wavefront error drifts are injected using a pair of kilo-deformable mirrors (DMs). The drifts are corrected using the DMs via the DZM algorithm; note that the current limiting factor for the DZM results is the air environment. We show that DZM can maintain a contrast of 5.3 x 10(-8) in the presence of DM random walk drift with a low SNR.
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Exoplanets,Direct Imaging,Focal Plane Wavefront Estimation,Focal Plane Wavefront Control,Wavefront Error Drift
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