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Rob Gontrum

at Space Telescope Science Institute

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Proceedings Article | 6 October 2023 Presentation

High-contrast imager for complex aperture telescopes (HiCAT): 10. Broadband Zernike wavefront sensor under natural and artificial drifts

Raphaël Pourcelot, Emiel Por, Mamadou N'Diaye, Benjamin Buralli, Marcel Carbillet, Kjetil Dohlen, Sylvain Egron, Marc Ferrari, Rachel Fox, Rob Gontrum, Iva Laginja, Meiji Nguyen, Bryony Nickson, Marshall Perrin, Peter Petrone, Laurent Pueyo, Susan Redmond, Ananya Sahoo, Anand Sivaramakrishnan, Hari Subedi, Sam Weinstock, Scott Will, Rémi Soummer, John Hagopian

Proceedings Volume 12680, 126801F (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2677790

KEYWORDS: Wavefront sensors, Telescopes, Imaging systems, Coronagraphy, Deformable mirrors, Stars, Monochromatic aberrations, Image segmentation, Wavefront aberrations, Observatories

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Proceedings Article | 27 August 2022 Presentation + Paper

High-contrast imager for complex aperture telescopes (HiCAT): 8. Dark zone demonstration with simultaneous closed-loop low-order wavefront sensing and control

Rémi Soummer, Emiel Por, Raphaël Pourcelot, Susan Redmond, Iva Laginja, Scott Will, Marshall Perrin, Laurent Pueyo, Ananya Sahoo, Peter Petrone, Keira Brooks, Rachel Fox, Alex Klein, Bryony Nickson, Thomas Comeau, Marc Ferrari, Rob Gontrum, John Hagopian, Lucie Leboulleux, Daniel Leongomez, Joe Lugten, Laurent Mugnier, Mamadou N'Diaye, Meiji Nguyen, James Noss, Jean-François Sauvage, Nathan Scott, Anand Sivaramakrishnan, Hari Subedi, Sam Weinstock

Proceedings Volume 12180, 1218026 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630444

KEYWORDS: Coronagraphy, Wavefronts, Wavefront sensors, Telescopes, Phase retrieval

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Proceedings Article | 4 August 2021 Presentation

High-contrast imager for complex aperture telescopes (HiCAT): 7. Dark zone demonstration with fully segmented aperture coronagraph

Rémi Soummer, Iva Laginja, Scott Will, Marshall Perrin, James Noss, Emiel Por, Susan Redmond, Raphaël Pourcelot, Ananya Sahoo, Peter Petrone, Keira Brooks, Laurent Pueyo, Bryony Nickson, Matt Maclay, Gregory Brady, Thomas Comeau, Julia Fowler, Kelsey Glazer, Rob Gontrum, John Hagopian, Theo Jolivet, Maggie Kautz, Lucie Leboulleux, Evelyn McChesney, Laurent Mugnier, Mamadou N'Diaye, Meiji Nguyen, Heather Olszewski, Leonid Pogorelyuk, Jaret Prothro, Jean-François Sauvage, Nathan Scott, Ron Shiri, Anand Sivaramakrishnan, Hari Subedi, Sam Weinstock, Yinzi Xin, Rebecca Zhang

Proceedings Volume 11823, 118230T (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2594684

KEYWORDS: Image segmentation, Coronagraphy, Telescopes, Imaging systems, Wavefront sensors, Wavefronts, Deformable mirrors, Ultraviolet telescopes, Ultraviolet radiation, UV optics

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Proceedings Article | 9 September 2019 Presentation

High-contrast imager for complex aperture telescopes (HiCAT): 6. Two deformable mirror wavefront control (Conference Presentation)

Rémi Soummer, Iva Laginja, Scott Will, Roser Juanola-Parramon, Peter Petrone, Greg Brady, James Noss, Marshall Perrin, Julia Fowler, Heather Kurtz, Kathryn St. Laurent, Kevin Fogarty, Evelyn McChesney, Nathan Scott, Keira Brooks, Thomas Comeau, Marc Ferrari, Rob Gontrum, John Hagopian, Emmanuel Hugot, Lucie Leboulleux, Johan Mazoyer, Laurent Mugnier, Mamadou N'Diaye, Laurent Pueyo, Jean-François Sauvage, Ron Shiri, Anand Sivaramakrishnan, Ana-Maria Valenzuela, Neil Zimmerman

Proceedings Volume 11117, 111171Y (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2530299

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Deformable mirrors, Imaging systems, Wavefronts, Wavefront sensors, Coronagraphy, Cameras, Ultraviolet telescopes, Image segmentation, Space telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 21 August 2018 Presentation + Paper

High-contrast imager for complex aperture telescopes (HiCAT): 5. first results with segmented-aperture coronagraph and wavefront control

Rémi Soummer, Gregory Brady, Keira Brooks, Thomas Comeau, Élodie Choquet, Tom Dillon, Sylvain Egron, Rob Gontrum, John Hagopian, Iva Laginja, Lucie Leboulleux, Marshall Perrin, Peter Petrone, Laurent Pueyo, Johan Mazoyer, Mamadou N'Diaye, A. J. Eldorado Riggs, Ron Shiri, Anand Sivaramakrishnan, Kathryn St. Laurent, Ana-Maria Valenzuela, Neil Zimmerman

Proceedings Volume 10698, 106981O (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314110

KEYWORDS: Coronagraphy, Space telescopes, Wavefronts, Telescopes, Metrology, Phase retrieval, Carbon nanotubes

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Segmented telescopes are a possible approach to enable large-aperture space telescopes for the direct imaging and spectroscopy of habitable worlds. However, the increased complexity of their aperture geometry, due to the central obstruction, support structures and segment gaps, makes high-contrast imaging very challenging. The High-contrast imager for Complex Aperture Telescopes (HiCAT) testbed was designed to study and develop solutions for such telescope pupils using wavefront control and coronagraphic starlight suppression. The testbed design has the flexibility to enable studies with increasing complexity for telescope aperture geometries starting with off-axis telescopes, then on-axis telescopes with central obstruction and support structures - e.g. the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) - up to on-axis segmented telescopes, including various concepts for a Large UV, Optical, IR telescope (LUVOIR). In the past year, HiCAT has made significant hardware and software updates in order to accelerate the development of the project. In addition to completely overhauling the software that runs the testbed, we have completed several hardware upgrades, including the second and third deformable mirror, and the first custom Apodized Pupil Lyot Coronagraph (APLC) optimized for the HiCAT aperture, which is similar to one of the possible geometries considered for LUVOIR. The testbed also includes several external metrology features for rapid replacement of parts, and in particular the ability to test multiple apodizers readily, an active tip-tilt control system to compensate for local vibration and air turbulence in the enclosure. On the software and operations side, the software infrastructure enables 24/7 automated experiments that include routine calibration tasks and high-contrast experiments. In this communication we present an overview and status update of the project, both on the hardware and software side, and describe the results obtained with APLC wavefront control.

Proceedings Article | 21 August 2018 Paper

High-contrast imager for complex aperture telescopes (HiCAT): 6. software control infrastructure and calibration

Christopher Moriarty, Keira Brooks, Rémi Soummer, Marshall Perrin, Thomas Comeau, Gregory Brady, Rob Gontrum, Peter Petrone

Proceedings Volume 10698, 1069853 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314058

KEYWORDS: Safety, Calibration, Interfaces, Space telescopes, Cameras, Telescopes, Control systems, Device simulation, Imaging systems

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