End-to-end assessment of a large aperture segmented ultraviolet optical infrared (UVOIR) telescope architecture

Lee Feinberg; Norman Rioux; Matthew Bolcar; Alice Liu; Olivier Guyon; Chris Stark; Jon Arenberg

doi:10.1117/12.2231487

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29 July 2016 End-to-end assessment of a large aperture segmented ultraviolet optical infrared (UVOIR) telescope architecture

Lee Feinberg, Norman Rioux, Matthew Bolcar, Alice Liu, Olivier Guyon, Chris Stark, Jon Arenberg

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Proceedings Volume 9904, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave; 99040H (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231487
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

Key challenges of a future large aperture, segmented Ultraviolet Optical Infrared (UVOIR) Telescope capable of performing a spectroscopic survey of hundreds of Exoplanets will be sufficient stability to achieve 10^-10 contrast measurements and sufficient throughput and sensitivity for high yield exo-earth spectroscopic detection. Our team has collectively assessed an optimized end to end architecture including a high throughput coronagraph capable of working with a segmented telescope, a cost-effective and heritage based stable segmented telescope, a control architecture that minimizes the amount of new technologies, and an exo-earth yield assessment to evaluate potential performance. These efforts are combined through integrated modeling, coronagraph evaluations, and exo-earth yield calculations to assess the potential performance of the selected architecture. In addition, we discusses the scalability of this architecture to larger apertures and the technological tall poles to enabling these missions.

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Lee Feinberg, Norman Rioux, Matthew Bolcar, Alice Liu, Olivier Guyon, Chris Stark, and Jon Arenberg "End-to-end assessment of a large aperture segmented ultraviolet optical infrared (UVOIR) telescope architecture", Proc. SPIE 9904, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 99040H (29 July 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231487

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