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16 July 2018WFIRST coronagraph flight performance modeling
John Krist,1 Robert Effinger,1 Brian Kern,1 Milan Mandic,1 James McGuire,1 Dwight Moody,1 Patrick Morrissey,1 Ilya Poberezhskiy,1 A. J. Riggshttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0863-6228,1 Navtej Saini,1 Erkin Sidick,1 Hong Tang,1 John Trauger1
As it has for the past few years, numerical modeling is being used to predict the on-orbit, high-contrast imaging performance of the WFIRST coronagraph, which was recently defined to be a technology demonstrator with science capabilities. A consequence has been a realignment of modeling priorities and revised applications of modeling uncertainty factors and margins, which apply to multiple factors such as pointing and wavefront jitter, thermally-induced deformations, polarization, and aberration sensitivities. At the same time, the models have increased in fidelity as additional parameters have been added, such as time-dependent pupil shear and mid-spatial-frequency deformations of the primary and secondary mirrors, detector effects, and reaction-wheel-speed-dependent pointing and wavefront jitter.
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John Krist, Robert Effinger, Brian Kern, Milan Mandic, James McGuire, Dwight Moody, Patrick Morrissey, Ilya Poberezhskiy, A. J. Riggs, Navtej Saini, Erkin Sidick, Hong Tang, John Trauger, "WFIRST coronagraph flight performance modeling," Proc. SPIE 10698, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 106982K (16 July 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2310043