DAVINCI, a diluter aperture visible nulling coronagraphic instrument

M. Shao; S. Bairstow; B. Martin Levine; Gautam Vasisht; Benjamin F. Lane; Gopal Vasudevan; Robert Woodruff; Rocco Samuele; Jeffrey Wynn; Mark Clampin; Richard Lyon; Olivier Guyon

doi:10.1117/12.789767

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28 July 2008 DAVINCI, a diluter aperture visible nulling coronagraphic instrument

M. Shao, S. Bairstow, B. Martin Levine, Gautam Vasisht, Benjamin F. Lane, Gopal Vasudevan, Robert Woodruff, Rocco Samuele, Jeffrey Wynn, Mark Clampin, Richard Lyon, Olivier Guyon

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Proceedings Volume 7013, Optical and Infrared Interferometry; 70132T (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.789767
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2008, Marseille, France

Abstract

DAVINCI is a dilute aperture nulling coronagraph that has the potential of directly detecting an Earth in the habitable zone around ~100 nearby stars. The novel feature of this mission concept is to replace a filled aperture 5-6 meter telescope with 4 by 1.1 meter telescopes in a phased array, dramatically reducing the cost by potentially by a factor of 5-10.

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M. Shao, S. Bairstow, B. Martin Levine, Gautam Vasisht, Benjamin F. Lane, Gopal Vasudevan, Robert Woodruff, Rocco Samuele, Jeffrey Wynn, Mark Clampin, Richard Lyon, and Olivier Guyon "DAVINCI, a diluter aperture visible nulling coronagraphic instrument", Proc. SPIE 7013, Optical and Infrared Interferometry, 70132T (28 July 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.789767

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