Wavefront control architecture and expected performance for the TMT Planetary Systems Imager

Olivier Guyon; Benjamin Mazin; Michael Fitzgerald; Dimitri Mawet; Christian Marois; Andy Skemer; Julien Lozi; Jared Males

doi:10.1117/12.2314331

Wavefront control architecture and expected performance for the TMT Planetary Systems Imager

Olivier Guyon, Benjamin Mazin, Michael Fitzgerald, Dimitri Mawet, Christian Marois, Andy Skemer, Julien Lozi, Jared Males

Optical Sciences

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Abstract

The Planetary Systems Imager (PSI) is a modular instrument optimized for direct imaging and characterization of exoplanet and disks with the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). PSI will operate across a wide wavelength range (≈0.6 - 5μm) to image exoplanets and circumstellar disks in both reflected light and thermal emission. Thanks to the TMT's large collecting area, PSI will have the sensitivity to directly image and spectrally characterize large gaseous planets with unprecedented sensitivity. PSI will also be capable of imaging rocky planets in the habitable zones of the nearest M-type stars in reflected light and search for biomarkers in their atmospheres. Imaging habitable planets in reflected light is PSI's most challenging goal, requiring high contrast imaging (HCI) capabilities well beyond what current instruments achieve. This science goal drives PSI's wavefront sensing and control requirements and defines the corresponding architecture discussed in this paper. We show that PSI must deliver 1e-5 image contrast ≈15 mas separation at λ ≈ 1μm-1.5μm, and that a conventional extreme-AO architecture relying on a single high speed wavefront sensor (WFS) is not sufficient to meet this requirement. We propose a wavefront control architecture relying on both visible light (λ < 1.1 μm) sensing to optimize sensitivity, and near-IR (λ > 1.1 μm) sensors to address wavefront chromaticity terms and provide high contrast imaging capability. We show that this combination will enable speckle halo suppression at the < 1e-5 raw contrast level in near-IR, allowing detection and spectroscopic characterization of potentially habitable exoplanets orbiting nearby M-type stars.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Adaptive Optics Systems VI
Editors	Dirk Schmidt, Laura Schreiber, Laird M. Close
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Print)	9781510619593
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314331
State	Published - 2018
Event	Adaptive Optics Systems VI 2018 - Austin, United States Duration: Jun 10 2018 → Jun 15 2018

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	10703
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Other	Adaptive Optics Systems VI 2018
Country/Territory	United States
City	Austin
Period	6/10/18 → 6/15/18

Keywords

Adaptive Optics
Coronagraphy
Exoplanets
High Contrast Imaging

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Guyon, O., Mazin, B., Fitzgerald, M., Mawet, D., Marois, C., Skemer, A., Lozi, J., & Males, J. (2018). Wavefront control architecture and expected performance for the TMT Planetary Systems Imager. In D. Schmidt, L. Schreiber, & L. M. Close (Eds.), Adaptive Optics Systems VI Article 107030Z (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 10703). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314331

Wavefront control architecture and expected performance for the TMT Planetary Systems Imager. / Guyon, Olivier; Mazin, Benjamin; Fitzgerald, Michael et al.
Adaptive Optics Systems VI. ed. / Dirk Schmidt; Laura Schreiber; Laird M. Close. SPIE, 2018. 107030Z (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 10703).

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Guyon, O, Mazin, B, Fitzgerald, M, Mawet, D, Marois, C, Skemer, A, Lozi, J & Males, J 2018, Wavefront control architecture and expected performance for the TMT Planetary Systems Imager. in D Schmidt, L Schreiber & LM Close (eds), Adaptive Optics Systems VI., 107030Z, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 10703, SPIE, Adaptive Optics Systems VI 2018, Austin, United States, 6/10/18. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314331

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