AI 中文总结
研究挑战是探测附近恒星宜居带类地系外行星，核心方法是自适应量子测量，通过更新空间模式基等操作，能在低对比度下估计源参数，主要贡献是可在瑞利极限下探测系外行星，重建场景成功率高且对失准鲁棒。
AI 中文摘要
探测附近恒星宜居带内的类地系外行星仍然是一项严峻挑战。这些行星比其主恒星暗\(10^8\)到\(10^{10}\)倍，且处于衍射极限角距离，星光会强烈遮蔽伴星信号。本文提出一种自适应量子测量方法，用于在亚瑞利、超高对比度 regime 中估计相互不相干点源的数量、位置和亮度，对比度低至\(10^{-8}\)，比之前的量子成像系外行星探测方法高出五个数量级。该方法采用更新的空间模式基以最大化每个检测光子的量子 Fisher 信息。通过在对数亮度坐标中进行最大似然估计，并直接根据光子计数统计通过贝叶斯信息准则（BIC）模型选择确定源计数，无需可调检测阈值。对于亚瑞利距离内且亮度比跨越八个数量级的点源，该方法重建完整场景的平均成功率为\(72.5\%\)。此外，它对失准具有鲁棒性，在高达六个像素的偏移下成功率保持在\(71.3\%\)。这些结果表明可以在瑞利极限以下探测到类地系外行星，这是以前直接成像无法达到的 regime。
英文摘要
Detecting terrestrial exoplanets in the habitable zones of nearby stars remains a critical challenge. Such planets can be \(10^8\) to \(10^{10}\) times fainter than their host stars and lie at diffraction-limited angular separations, where starlight strongly obscures the companion signal. Here we present an adaptive quantum measurement method for estimating the number, positions, and brightnesses of mutually incoherent point sources in the sub-Rayleigh, ultra-high-contrast regime, operating at contrasts down to \(10^{-8}\) -- five orders of magnitude beyond previous quantum imaging approaches to exoplanet detection. The method adopts a spatial-mode basis that is updated to maximize the quantum Fisher information per detected photon. Estimation is performed by maximum likelihood in log-brightness coordinates, and the source count is determined by Bayesian-information-criterion (BIC) model selection directly from photon-count statistics, without a tunable detection threshold. For point sources within sub-Rayleigh separations and with brightness ratios spanning eight orders of magnitude, the method reconstructs complete scenes with a mean success rate of \(72.5\%\). Furthermore, it is robust to misalignment, maintaining a \(71.3\%\) success rate under offsets of up to six pixels. These results demonstrate that terrestrial exoplanets can be detected below the Rayleigh limit, a regime previously inaccessible to direct imaging.
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