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未来空间望远镜的偏振像差估计及其对日冕仪性能的影响

Estimation of polarization aberrations and their effect on the coronagraphic performance for future space telescopes

Ramya M Anche, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Jaren N Ashcraft, Kian Milani, Kyle Van Gorkom, Kevin Derby, Ewan S. Douglas, Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer

AI总结:

本文模拟了6.5 m TMA望远镜的偏振像差,并使用hcipy框架评估了八种镜面镀膜方案对日冕仪性能的影响,发现裸/氧化铝和Al+18nm LiF镀膜性能最佳。

摘要:

拟议的未来空间天文台(如Habitable World Observatory)的一个主要目标是直接成像并表征类太阳恒星周围的类地行星,以寻找宜居性特征,这需要1e-10的星光抑制(对比度)。影响该对比度的一个重要方面是镜面反射产生的偏振像差。偏振像差是源于镜面菲涅尔反射的依赖于偏振的振幅和相位图样。这些像差取决于入射角和表面的镀膜参数。本文模拟了具有6.5 m整体主镜的同轴和离轴TMA望远镜的偏振像差。我们分析了天文滤光片g-I波段下八种不同镜面镀膜方案的偏振像差及其对日冕仪性能的影响:三种单层金属镀膜和五种保护性镀膜方案。首先,使用Zemax中的偏振光线追迹估计了每种镀膜和滤光片波段的Jones光瞳。然后,使用基于物理光学的模拟框架hcipy,将这些Jones光瞳通过矢量涡旋日冕仪和完美日冕仪进行传播。分析表明,由四面镜子产生的两种主要偏振像差是延迟-离焦和延迟-倾斜。模拟还表明,镀膜在决定像差强度方面起着重要作用。裸/氧化铝和Al+18nm LiF镀膜的性能比所有其他镀膜高出一个数量级。

英文摘要:

A major goal of proposed future space observatories, such as the Habitable World Observatory, is to directly image and characterize Earth-like planets around Sun-like stars to search for habitability signatures requiring the starlight suppression (contrast) of 1e-10. One of the significant aspects affecting this contrast is the polarization aberrations generated from the reflection from mirror surfaces. The polarization aberrations are the phase-dependent amplitude and phase patterns originating from the Fresnel reflections of the mirror surfaces. These aberrations depend on the angle of incidence and coating parameters of the surface. This paper simulates the polarization aberrations for an on-axis and off-axis TMA telescope of a 6.5 m monolithic primary mirror. We analyze the polarization aberrations and their effect on the coronagraphic performance for eight different recipes of mirror coatings for Astronomical filter bands g-I: three single-layer metal coatings and five recipes of protective coatings. First, the Jones pupils are estimated for each coating and filter band using the polarization ray tracing in Zemax. Then, we propagate these Jones pupils through a Vector Vortex Coronagraph and Perfect Coronagraphs using hcipy, a physical optics-based simulation framework. The analysis shows that the two main polarization aberrations generated from the four mirrors are the retardance-defocus and retardance-tilt. The simulations also show that the coating plays a significant role in determining the strength of the aberrations. The bare/oxi-aluminum and Al+18nm LiF coating outperforms all the other coatings by one order of magnitude.

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