Laboratory Demonstration of Spatial Linear Dark-Field Control for Imaging Extrasolar Planets in Reflected Light

Thayne Currie,Eugene Pluzhnik,Olivier Guyon,Ruslan Belikov,Kelsey Miller,Steven P. Bos,Jared R. Males,Dan Sirbu,Charlotte Bond,Richard A. Frazin,Tyler Groff,Brian Kern,Julien Lozi,Benjamin A. Mazin,Bijan Nemati,Barnaby Norris,Hari Subedi,Scott Will

Laboratory Demonstration of Spatial Linear Dark-Field Control for Imaging Extrasolar Planets in Reflected Light

2020

Thayne Currie
Eugene Pluzhnik
Olivier Guyon
Ruslan Belikov
Kelsey Miller
Steven P. Bos
Jared R. Males
Dan Sirbu
Charlotte Bond
Richard A. Frazin
Tyler Groff
Brian Kern
Julien Lozi
Benjamin A. Mazin
Bijan Nemati
Barnaby Norris
Hari Subedi
Scott Will

We present the first laboratory tests of Spatial Linear Dark Field Control (LDFC) approaching raw contrasts (5e-7) and separations (1.5--5.2 lambda/D) needed to image jovian planets around Sun-like...

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Exoplanet
Dark field microscopy
Gas giant
Astronomy
Lambda
Reflection (physics)
astronomical instrumentation
Physics

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