System analysis and expected performance of a high-contrast module for HARMONI

Alexis Carlotti; François Hénault; Kjetil Dohlen; Jean-François Sauvage; Patrick Rabou; Yves Magnard; Arthur Vigan; David Mouillet; Gael Chauvin; Pascal Vola; Mickael Bonnefoy; Thierry Fusco; Kacem El Hadi; Niranjan Thatte; Fraser Clarke; Matthias Tecza; Ian Bryson; Hermine Schnetler; Christophe Vérinaud

doi:10.1117/12.2313416

16 July 2018 System analysis and expected performance of a high-contrast module for HARMONI

Alexis Carlotti, François Hénault, Kjetil Dohlen, Jean-François Sauvage, Patrick Rabou, Yves Magnard, Arthur Vigan, David Mouillet, Gael Chauvin, Pascal Vola, Mickael Bonnefoy, Thierry Fusco, Kacem El Hadi, Niranjan Thatte, Fraser Clarke, Matthias Tecza, Ian Bryson, Hermine Schnetler, Christophe Vérinaud

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Proceedings Volume 10702, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII; 107029N (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313416
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2018, Austin, Texas, United States

Abstract

HARMONI is a first-light visible and near-IR integral field spectrograph of ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) which will sit on top of Cerro Armazones, Chile. A Single Conjugate Adaptive Optics (SCAO) subsystem will provide diffraction-limited spectro-images in a Nyquist-sampled 0.61 x 0.86 arcsec field of view, with a R=3000-20000 spectral resolution. Inside the instrument, a High Contrast Module (HCM) could give HARMONI the ability to spectrally characterize young giant exoplanets (and disks) with flux ratio down to 10⁻⁶ as close as 100-200mas from their star. This would be achieved with an apodized pupil coronagraph to attenuate the diffracted light of the star and limit the dynamic range on the detector, and an internal ZELDA wavefront sensor to calibrate non-common path aberrations, assuming that the surface quality of the relay optics of HARMONI satisfy specific requirements. This communication presents (a) the system analysis that was conducted to converge towards these requirement, and the proposed HCM design, (b) an end-to-end simulation tool that has been built to produce realistic datacubes of hour-long observations, and (c) the estimated performance of the HCM, which has been derived by applying differential imaging techniques on the simulated data.

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Alexis Carlotti, François Hénault, Kjetil Dohlen, Jean-François Sauvage, Patrick Rabou, Yves Magnard, Arthur Vigan, David Mouillet, Gael Chauvin, Pascal Vola, Mickael Bonnefoy, Thierry Fusco, Kacem El Hadi, Niranjan Thatte, Fraser Clarke, Matthias Tecza, Ian Bryson, Hermine Schnetler, and Christophe Vérinaud "System analysis and expected performance of a high-contrast module for HARMONI", Proc. SPIE 10702, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII, 107029N (16 July 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313416

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