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The NASA Terrestrial Planet Finder Coronagraph (TPF-C) mission envisions using a space telescope with an
approximately 8 m by 3 m diameter primary mirror to image and spectroscopically characterize at visible wavelengths
Earth-like planets orbiting nearby stars. Such terrestrial planets have intensities of 10-10 relative to their stars at
separations of a fraction of an arcsecond, requiring extremely high-contrast imaging capabilities. A simple optical
system with a minimal number of surfaces will likely have the best chance to image a very faint source near a bright
star. A proposed version of a TPF-C integrated starlight suppression system and camera called SpeckleCam
encompasses such a design. It incorporates two high-density deformable mirrors to control phase and amplitude
wavefront errors, a coronagraph to suppress the stellar diffraction pattern, and simultaneous imaging in three passbands.
We use the SpeckleCam concept to examine the utility of the PROPER modeling package, a set of IDL routines that
simulate wavefront propagation in an optical system.
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John Krist, John Trauger, Dwight Moody, "Studying a simple TPF-C," Proc. SPIE 6265, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation I: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter, 62653O (7 July 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.672386