@inproceedings{9a777ff88f5c4fc5a93dc2ad650bf9d0,
title = "Wavefront sensing in space from the PICTURE-B sounding rocket",
abstract = "A NASA sounding rocket for high contrast imaging with a visible nulling coronagraph, the Planet Imaging Coronagraphic Technology Using a Reconfigurable Experimental Base (PICTURE-B) payload has made two suborbital attempts to observe the warm dust disk inferred around Epsilon Eridani. We present results from the November 2015 launch demonstrating active wavefront sensing in space with a piezoelectric mirror stage and a micromachine deformable mirror along with precision pointing and lightweight optics in space.",
keywords = "Active optics, Deformable mirrors, Exoplanets, High-contrast imaging, Interferometry, Sounding rockets, Visible nulling coronagraph, Wavefront sensing",
author = "Douglas, {Ewan S.} and Mendillo, {Christopher B.} and Cook, {Timothy A.} and Supriya Chakrabarti",
note = "Funding Information: This work was funded by NASA grants NNG05WC17G, NNX11AD53G, NNX13AD50G, NNX15AG23G, and through graduate fellowships awarded to E.S. Douglas by the Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium. Special thanks to Brian A. Hicks of NASA Goddard Space Flight Facility, Benjamin F. Lane of MIT Draper Laboratory, Shanti Rao and J. Kent Wallace of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Paul Bierden and the rest of the staff of Boston Micromachines for their support of the PICTURE project. The Boston University Scientific Instrument Facility worked tirelessly to support to integration of both PICTURE payloads. This research made use of Astropy, a community-developed core Python package for Astronomy37 and the IPython Interactive Computing architecture.38 Additional data analyses were done using IDL (Exelis Visual Information Solutions, Boulder, Colorado) Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 SPIE.; Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave ; Conference date: 26-06-2016 Through 01-07-2016",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1117/12.2235631",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "MacEwen, {Howard A.} and Makenzie Lystrup and Fazio, {Giovanni G.}",
booktitle = "Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016",
}