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Thaddeus Potter

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Proceedings Article | 5 October 2023 Presentation + Paper

The PICTURE-C exoplanetary imaging balloon mission: second flight results and the transition to a new mission, PICTURE-D

Christopher Mendillo, Kuravi Hewawasam, Jason Martel, Thaddeus Potter, Sunip Mukherjee, Timothy Cook, Supriya Chakrabarti, Frans Snik, David Doelman, Dan Sirbu, Ruslan Belikov, Eduardo Bendek, Karl Stapelfeldt, Schuyler Grace Wolff

Proceedings Volume 12680, 126800F (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2677518

KEYWORDS: Coronagraphy, Wavefronts, Polarization, Cameras, Balloons, Telescopes, Control systems, Stars, Imaging systems, Scattered light

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Proceedings Article | 4 October 2023 Paper

The PICTURE-C exoplanetary imaging balloon mission: a refactored thermal model and framework for an end-to-end model for balloon borne coronagraphs

Thaddeus Potter, Christopher Mendillo, Kuravi Hewawasam, Jason Martel, Timothy Cook, Supriya Chakrabarti

Proceedings Volume 12676, 126760V (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2677591

KEYWORDS: Thermal modeling, Data modeling, Coronagraphy, Balloons, Mirrors, Optical benches, Observatories, Telescopes, Boundary conditions

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SPIE Journal Paper | 24 May 2023 Open Access

Balloon flight demonstration of coronagraph focal plane wavefront correction with PICTURE-C

Christopher B. Mendillo, Kuravi Hewawasam, Jason Martel, Thaddeus Potter, Timothy A. Cook, Supriya Chakrabarti

JATIS, Vol. 9, Issue 02, 025005, (May 2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.JATIS.9.2.025005

KEYWORDS: Coronagraphy, Telescopes, Wavefronts, Stars, Balloons, Control systems, Cameras, Equipment, Vibration, Mirrors

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Proceedings Article | 27 August 2022 Poster + Paper

STOP model implementation for the PICTURE-C exoplanetary imaging balloon mission, progress report I: thermal modeling and comparison with flight data

Thaddeus Potter, Christopher Mendillo, Kuravi Hewawasam, Jason Martel, Timothy Cook, Supriya Chakrabarti

Proceedings Volume 12180, 1218057 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630418

KEYWORDS: Mirrors, Thermal modeling, Data modeling, Temperature sensors, Optical benches, Observatories, Electronics, Solar radiation models, Solids, Coronagraphy

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Proceedings Article | 27 August 2022 Presentation + Paper

The PICTURE-C exoplanetary imaging balloon mission: laboratory coronagraph demonstrations of high-contrast imaging and low-order wavefront control

Christopher Mendillo, Kuravi Hewawasam, Jason Martel, Thaddeus Potter, Timothy Cook, Supriya Chakrabarti

Proceedings Volume 12180, 1218022 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630237

KEYWORDS: Coronagraphy, Wavefronts, Speckle, Sensors, Mirrors, Telescopes, Control systems, Cameras, Distortion, Actuators

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Proceedings Article | 1 September 2021 Presentation + Paper

The PICTURE-C exoplanetary imaging balloon mission: first flight results and second flight preparation

Christopher Mendillo, Kuravi Hewawasam, Jason Martel, Thaddeus Potter, Timothy Cook, Supriya Chakrabarti

Proceedings Volume 11823, 118230X (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2594749

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Coronagraphy, Cameras, Mirrors, Wavefronts, Fourier transforms, Imaging systems, CCD cameras, Sensors, Exoplanets

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