A Unified View of Coronagraph Image Masks
| dc.creator | Kuchner, Marc J. | |
| dc.date | 2004-01-14 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:11:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:11:52Z | |
| dc.description | The last few years have seen a variety of new image mask designs for diffraction-limited coronagraphy. Could there still be useful designs as yet undiscovered? To begin to answer this question, I survey and unify the Fraunhofer theory of coronagraph image masks in the context of a one-dimensional classical coronagraph. I display a complete solution to the problem of removing on-axis light assuming an unapodized entrance aperture and I introduce the attenuation function, a measure of a generic coronagraph's off-axis performance. With these tools, I demonstrate that the masks proposed so far form a nearly complete library of image masks that are useful for detecting faint extrasolar planets. | |
| dc.description | 17 pages including 3 figures. Submitted to ApJ 1/13/04 | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0401256 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0401256 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/7255 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | A Unified View of Coronagraph Image Masks | |
| dc.type | text |