ESCAPE project. CAPyBARA: a Roman Coronagraph simulator for post-processing methods development - Aix-Marseille Université
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ESCAPE project. CAPyBARA: a Roman Coronagraph simulator for post-processing methods development

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The Roman Coronagraph Instrument will be the first space facility equipped with deformable mirrors (DMs). These will lead to reach a contrast of 10 -8 or better in a dark hole between 3λ/D and 9λ/D. Post-processing techniques play an important role in increasing the contrast limits.

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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hal-04747188 , version 1 (21-10-2024)
hal-04747188 , version 2 (29-10-2024)

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Lisa Altinier, Élodie Choquet, Arthur Vigan, Nicolás Godoy, Alexis Lau. ESCAPE project. CAPyBARA: a Roman Coronagraph simulator for post-processing methods development. 2024. ⟨hal-04747188v2⟩
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