Detecting and characterizing exoplanets with multicolor detector assemblies

Rene Doyon; David Lafreniere; Christian Marois; Rene Racine; Daniel Nadeau

doi:10.1117/12.566102

7 July 2004 Detecting and characterizing exoplanets with multicolor detector assemblies

Rene Doyon, David Lafreniere, Christian Marois, Rene Racine, Daniel Nadeau

Proceedings Volume 5382, Second Backaskog Workshop on Extremely Large Telescopes; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.566102
Event: Second Backaskog Workshop on Extremely Large Telescopes, 2003, Backaskog, Sweden

Abstract

Detecting and characterizing exoplanets is one of the main science drives for extremely large telecopes. It requires a high-order (extreme) adaptive optics (ExAO) system combined with a coronagraph and a science camera optimized for efficient attenuation of point spread function (PSF) residuals induced by atmospheric speckles and high-frequency quasi-static aberrations. Spectral differential imaging is a very promising technique for attenuating PSF residuals. High-contrast imaging observations with the TRIDENT camera at the AO focus of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) have shown that companion detection using differential imaging is seriously compromised by very small amount of non-common path wave front errors between the different optical channels of the camera. Such problems can be eliminated with a new type of detector assembly: a multi-color detector assembly (MCDA). This paper describes the MCDA concept along with numerical simulations predicting the combined performance of an ExAO system with a Lyot coronagraph and an MCDA on a segmented 20m telescope.

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Rene Doyon, David Lafreniere, Christian Marois, Rene Racine, and Daniel Nadeau "Detecting and characterizing exoplanets with multicolor detector assemblies", Proc. SPIE 5382, Second Backaskog Workshop on Extremely Large Telescopes, (7 July 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.566102

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