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20 July 2010 Coronagraphic capability for HARMONI at the E-ELT
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Abstract
HARMONI is a proposed visible and near-infrared integral field spectrograph for the European Extremely Large Telescope. We are exploring the merits of adding a coronagraphic capability to HARMONI, specifically targeted at enabling observations of faint, nearby companions (primarily extra-solar planets) that require high contrast. Although HARMONI is not fed by extreme adaptive optics, we show that substantial contrasts can be achieved by post-processing of the hyperspectral data cube using spectral deconvolution. We make predictions of achievable contrast as a function of coronagraph design, based on realistic models of the telescope's aberrations.
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Szymon Gladysz, Niranjan A. Thatte, Fraser Clarke, Mathias Tecza, and Graeme S. Salter "Coronagraphic capability for HARMONI at the E-ELT", Proc. SPIE 7735, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy III, 773589 (20 July 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857378
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KEYWORDS
Coronagraphy

Adaptive optics

Stars

Planets

Deconvolution

Wavefronts

Point spread functions

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