MEMS-based extreme adaptive optics for planet detection
Abstract
The next major step in the study of extrasolar planets will be the direct detection, resolved from their parent star, of a significant sample of Jupiter-like extrasolar giant planets. Such detection will open up new parts of the extrasolar planet distribution and allow spectroscopic characterization of the planets themselves. Detecting Jovian planets at 5-50 AU scale orbiting nearby stars requires adaptive optics systems and coronagraphs an order of magnitude more powerful than those available today--the realm of ''Extreme'' adaptive optics. We present the basic requirements and design for such a system, the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI.) GPI will require a MEMS-based deformable mirror with good surface quality, 2-4 micron stroke (operated in tandem with a conventional low-order ''woofer'' mirror), and a fully-functional 48-actuator-diameter aperture.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 877772
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-CONF-217217
TRN: US200608%%676
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Presented at: SPIE CONFERENCE 6113: MEMS/MOEMS COMPONENTS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS III, San Jose, CA, United States, Jan 21 - Jan 26, 2006
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; DESIGN; DETECTION; DISTRIBUTION; MIRRORS; OPTICS; PLANETS; STARS
Citation Formats
Macintosh, B A, Graham, J R, Oppenheimer, B, Poyneer, L, Sivaramakrishnan, A, and Veran, J. MEMS-based extreme adaptive optics for planet detection. United States: N. p., 2005.
Web.
Macintosh, B A, Graham, J R, Oppenheimer, B, Poyneer, L, Sivaramakrishnan, A, & Veran, J. MEMS-based extreme adaptive optics for planet detection. United States.
Macintosh, B A, Graham, J R, Oppenheimer, B, Poyneer, L, Sivaramakrishnan, A, and Veran, J. Fri .
"MEMS-based extreme adaptive optics for planet detection". United States.
doi:. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/877772.
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