@inproceedings{5f6bb828d21341819855a988bdb02489,
title = "Design of the vacuum high contrast imaging testbed for CDEEP, the Coronagraphic Debris and Exoplanet Exploring Pioneer",
abstract = "The Coronagraphic Debris Exoplanet Exploring Payload (CDEEP) is a Small-Sat mission concept for high contrast imaging of circumstellar disks. CDEEP is designed to observe disks in scattered light at visible wavelengths at a raw contrast level of 10-7 per resolution element (10-8 with post processing). This exceptional sensitivity will allow the imaging of transport dominated debris disks, quantifying the albedo, composition, and morphology of these low-surface brightness disks. CDEEP combines an off-axis telescope, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) deformable mirror, and a vector vortex coronagraph (VVC). This system will require rigorous testing and characterization in a space environment. We report on the CDEEP mission concept, and the status of the vacuum-compatible CDEEP prototype testbed currently under development at the University of Arizona, including design development and the results of simulations to estimate performance.",
keywords = "Coronagraphy, Debris disks, Deformable mirrors, Prototyping, Small satellites, Space telescopes, Toler- ancing, Wavefront sensing",
author = "Maier, {Erin R.} and Douglas, {Ewan S.} and Kim, {Dae Wook} and Kate Su and Ashcraft, {Jaren N.} and Breckinridge, {James B.} and Heejoo Choi and Elodie Choquet and Connors, {Thomas E.} and Olivier Durney and Gonzales, {Kerry L.} and Guthery, {Charlotte E.} and Haughwout, {Christian A.} and Heath, {James C.} and Justin Hyatt and Jennifer Lumbres and Males, {Jared R.} and Matthews, {Elisabeth C.} and Kian Milani and Montoya, {Oscar M.} and Mamadou N'diaye and Jamison Noenickx and Leonid Pogorelyuk and Garreth Ruane and Glenn Schneider and Smith, {George A.} and Stark, {Christopher C.}",
note = "Funding Information: Many thanks to the coauthors of the CDEEP proposal for their hard work on said proposal in a very difficult time, and to those who gave feedback on this work. Portions of this work were supported by the Arizona Board of Regents Technology Research Initiative Fund (TRIF). Thanks also to Hop Bailey and the Arizona Space Institute for their support of the mission concept. An allocation of computer time from the UA Research Computing High Performance Computing (HPC) at the University of Arizona is gratefully acknowledged. Thanks to Zemax for the access to their OpticStudio STOP analysis feature. Special thanks to everyone at the Space Telescope Science Institute Russell B. Makidon Optics Laboratory for their advice. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} COPYRIGHT SPIE. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.; Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave ; Conference date: 14-12-2020 Through 22-12-2020",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1117/12.2560878",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Makenzie Lystrup and Perrin, {Marshall D.}",
booktitle = "Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020",
}