We present yet another new family of masks for high-contrast imaging as required
for the to-be-built terrestrial planet finder space telescope. We call these masks
checkerboard masks. They...
Authors:
Eric Cady, Kunjithapatham Balasubramanian, Michael Carr, Matthew Dickie, Pierre Echternach, Tyler Groff, N. Kasdin, Christian Latchiev, Michael McElwain, Dan Sirbu, Robert Vanderbei, Victor White
An occulter is used in conjunction with a separate telescope to suppress the light of a distant star. To
demonstrate the performance of this system, we are building an occulter experiment in...
An occulter is an instrument designed to suppress starlight by diffraction from its edges; most are designed
to be circular, with a set of identical “petals” running around the outside....
