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利用日冕相位差补偿SPHERE的高阶准静态像差(COFFEE)

Compensation of high-order quasi-static aberrations on SPHERE with the coronagraphic phase diversity (COFFEE)

B. Paul, J. -F. Sauvage, L. M. Mugnier, K. Dohlen, C. Petit, T. Fusco, D. Mouillet, J. -L. Beuzit, M. Ferrari

摘要:

专门用于高对比度成像的第二代仪器SPHERE不久将在欧洲甚大望远镜上运行。这样的仪器依赖于一个极端的自适应光学系统,它与一个抑制大部分衍射恒星光的日冕仪相结合。然而,日冕仪的性能受到准静态像差的强烈限制,这些像差在科学图像平面上产生长寿命的斑点,很容易被误认为是行星。因此,最终的性能受到波前传感器和科学相机之间不可避免的差分像差的限制,必须对其进行估计和补偿。本文采用COFFEE方法对SPHERE的准静态像差进行测量和补偿。COFFEE(用于太阳系外行星探测的日冕照相焦平面波前估计)包括将相位分集扩展到日冕照相成像,仅使用科学相机记录的两个焦平面图像来估计准静态像差,包括差分像差。在本文中,我们使用从SPHERE的红外探测器IRDIS记录的日冕图像来估计日冕上游的像差,然后使用SPHERE的极端自适应光学环路SAXO进行补偿。我们首先验证的能力COFFEE估计高阶像差估计校准的影响函数模式引入的上游的日冕。然后,我们使用COFFEE在原来的迭代补偿过程中,以补偿估计的像差,导致对比度改善的一个因素,从1.4到4.7之间变化的2l/D和15 l/D的IRDIS。补偿过程的性能也通过仿真进行了评估。实验结果和这些模拟之间的一个很好的匹配。

英文摘要:

The second-generation instrument SPHERE, dedicated to high-contrast imaging, will soon be in operation on the European Very Large Telescope. Such an instrument relies on an extreme adaptive optics system coupled with a coronagraph that suppresses most of the diffracted stellar light. However, the coronagraph performance is strongly limited by quasi-static aberrations that create long-lived speckles in the scientific image plane, which can easily be mistaken for planets. The ultimate performance is thus limited by the unavoidable differential aberrations between the wave-front sensor and the scientific camera, which have to be estimated andcompensated for. In this paper, we use the COFFEE approach to measure and compensate for SPHERE's quasi-static aberrations. COFFEE (for COronagraphic Focal-plane wave-Front Estimation for Exoplanet detection), which consists in an extension of phase diversity to coronagraphic imaging, estimates the quasi-static aberrations, including the differential ones, using only two focal plane images recorded by the scientific camera. In this paper, we use coronagraphic images recorded from SPHERE's infrared detector IRDIS to estimate the aberrations upstream of the coronagraph, which are then compensated for using SPHERE's extreme adaptive optics loop SAXO. We first validate the ability of COFFEE to estimate high-order aberrations by estimating a calibrated influence function pattern introduced upstream of the coronagraph. We then use COFFEE in an original iterative compensation process to compensate for the estimated aberrations, leading to a contrast improvement by a factor that varies from 1.4 to 4.7 between 2l/D and 15l/D on IRDIS. The performance of the compensation process is also evaluated through simulations. An excellent match between experimental results and these simulations is found.

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