Hostname: page-component-6bf8c574d5-9f2xs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-03-09T02:33:02.165Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

A Coronographic Mode for Large Telescopes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

G. Courtes ,
Ph. Lamy ,
N. Mauron  and
H. Saisse
G. Courtes
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale du CNRS, Marseille, Observatoire de Marseille et Observatoire de Haute Provence, Observatoire du Pic du Midi
Ph. Lamy
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale du CNRS, Marseille, Observatoire de Marseille et Observatoire de Haute Provence, Observatoire du Pic du Midi
N. Mauron
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale du CNRS, Marseille, Observatoire de Marseille et Observatoire de Haute Provence, Observatoire du Pic du Midi
H. Saisse
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale du CNRS, Marseille, Observatoire de Marseille et Observatoire de Haute Provence, Observatoire du Pic du Midi

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

The study and efficiency test of the optics of the Space Telescope Faint Object Camera carried out at the Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale, led the authors to design a similar coronographic mode for large ground based telescopes. Adaptation of this design to the Mount Chiran 1 meter and E.S.O. 3.6 meter Ritchey-Chrétien telescopes has given new levels of performance in the detection of faint features in stellar and planetary observations.

Type
Section I: Optical Telescopes, Existing And Planned
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 67: Instrumentation for Astronomy with Large Optical Telescopes , 1982 , pp. 73 - 78
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1982

References

Bonneau, D., Josse, M. and Labeyrie, A. 1975, Lock-in image subtraction: detectability of circumstellar planets with the Space Telescope; Image Processing Techniques in Astronomy (Ed. de Jager, C. and Nieuwenhuijzen, H.), p. 403.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Courtès, G., Cruvellier, P., Detaille, M. and Saisse, M. 1981, Progress in Optics, Ed. Wolf, E., Reidel Publishing Company.Google Scholar
Dollfus, A. and Brunier, S. 1980, Le Coronographe focal et l’observation d’un nouvel anneaux de Saturne; C.R. Acad. Se. Paris T. 290, Serie B., pp. 261–263.Google Scholar
Lamy, E. and Mauron, N. 1981, Observations of Saturn’s Outer Ring and New Satellites during the 1980 Edge-on Presentation; Icarus 46, pp. 181–186.Google Scholar
KenKnight, C.E. 1977, Method of detecting extrasolar planets; Icarus 30, p. 422.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Larson, S.M. and Reitsema, H.J. 1979, A planetary coronograph; Bull. Am. Astron. Soc. 11, p. 558.Google Scholar
Lecacheux, J., Laques, P., Vapillon, L., Auge, A. and Despiau, R. 1980, A new satellite of Saturn – Dione B.; Icarus 43, pp. 111–115.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mauron, N. 1979, ESO/ESA Workshop on Astronomical Uses of the Space Telescope, Genève (Ed. Macchetto, F. Pacini, F. and Tarenghi, M.), pp. 363–374.Google Scholar