ESCAPE project. CAPyBARA: a Roman Coronagraph simulator for post-processing methods development
Résumé
Our work investigates how DMs can be used to calibrate the instrument response to controlled wavefront error maps and to improve the post-processing performance. To this goal, we are developing a simulation pipeline, CAPyBARA, that includes both a propagation model of the Coronagraph and a post-processing module and produces starlight subtracted images of a science target. This pipeline will then allow us to investigate alternative observing strategies and test their performance for the Roman Coronagraph.Here we present the first version of the simulator: it currently reproduces the optical propagation, which consists in the hybrid Lyot coronagraph (HLC) optical structure and dark-hole digging technique (Electric Field Conjugation, EFC, coupled with β-bumping), the environment (quasi-static aberration) and the postprocessing. With it, we mimic a Roman Coronagraph Instrument observing sequence, which consists in first acquiring reference star data before slewing to the scientific target, and we investigate how the evolution of the quasi-static aberrations deteriorate the contrast limit in the dark hole. We simulate a science target with planets at high contrast with their star and we perform a first post-processing analysis with classical subtraction techniques. Here we present the CAPyBARA simulator, as well as some first results. The next step will be to generate PSF libraries by injecting pre-calibrated probes on the DMs (in open loop) during the reference star acquisition and compute a PCA model. Later, we will compare the performance gain obtained with the modulated-DM reference library over standard approaches (RDI).
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