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CORONAGRAPH WORKSHOP 2006

The Coronagraph Workshop was held in Pasadena, California, on September 28-29, 2006. As a record of the Workshop, you can view the complete proceedings or individual papers; copies of presentations made at the Workshop; and a group photograph of the participants.

The following presentations are from the Coronagraph Workshop 2006.

Coronagraph Workshop 2006 Papers
  Title Author
00 - Complete workshop proceedings (PDF, 110.3 MB)
01 - Coronagraph Workshop Front Cover  
02 - Theoretical Analysis of Coronagraphs Olivier Guyon
03 - Terrestrial Planet Finder Coronagraph Optical Requirements Stuart B. Shaklan
04 - A Review of Cornograph Laboratory Results N. Jeremy Kasdin
05 - Coronagraph Critique C. Noecker, J. Kasdin, S. Shaklan
06 - Mirror Technology Assessment Gary Matthews
07 - Large Optical Systems Integration, Test and Verification Robert Egerman
08 - Science Operations and the Minimum Scale of TPF Robert A. Brown, Stuart B. Shaklan, and Sarah L. Hunyadi
09 - TPF-C: Size and Completeness Sarah Hunyadi and Stuart Shaklan, Robert Brown
10 - The Super-Earth Explorer J. Schneider, P. Riaud, G. Tinetti, H. M. Schmid, D. Stam, S. Udry, P. Baudoz, A. Boccaletti, O. Grasset, D. Mawet, J. Surdej, and the SEE-COAST Team
11 - Achromatic Optical Vortex Coronagraph with Subwavelength Gratings Dimitri Mawet, Pierre Riaud, Jacques Baudrand, Anthony Boccaletti, Pierre Baudoz, Daniel Rouan, Cédric Lenaerts, and Jean Surdej
12 - Japanese Terrestrial Planet Finder Motohide Tamura
13 - The SPICA Coronagraph Project L. Abe, K. Enya, S. Tanaka, T. Nakagawa, N. Murakami, J. Nishikawa, M. Tamura, K. Fujita, Y. Itoh, H. Kataza, O. Guyon, and the Spica Working Group
14 - The Coronagraphs of MIRI/JWST and SPHERE/VLT as Valuable Experiences for TPF-C A. Boccaletti and P. Baudoz
15 - Coronagraphs on the Hubble Space Telescope John Krist
16 - Recent Coronagraph Experimental Studies Jun Nishikawa, Y. Sato, N. Murakami, N. Baba, Alexander Tavrov, Kaito Yokochi, Takashi Kurokawa, and Mitsuo Takeda
17 - Status of Development for the AIC and the FQPM P. Baudoz and A. Boccaletti
18 - Lyot Project & Gemini Planet Imager Rémi Soummer, Ben Oppenheimer, and the Lyot Project Team, Bruce Macintosh, and the GPI Team
19 - The Near-Infrared Coronagraphic Imager Christ Ftaclas, Mark Chun and Mike Liu, Douglas Toomey
20 - High Contrast Coronagraphy and Extreme Adaptive Optics Experiments at Palomar E. Serabyn, P. Haguenauer, B. Mennesson, J. K. Wallace, M. Troy, and E. E. Bloemhof
21 - High Contrast Imaging w/ Focal Plane Wavefront Sensing & PIAA for Subaru Telescopes Olivier Guyon, Hideki Takami, Eugene Pluzhnik, Shinishiro Tanaka, Basile Gallet, and Stephen Colley, Motohide Tamura and Lyu Abe
22 - HiCIAO: High Constrast Instrument for the Subaru Next Generation Adaptive Optics Motohide Tamura and Ryuji Suzuki, Klaus Hodapp, HiCIAO Team
23 - First Laboratory Demonstration of Anti-Halo Apodization: A Coronagraph "Afterburner" Johanan L. Codona
24 - Laboratory Demonstrations of High-Contrast Coronagraphic Imaging at JPL John Trauger and Wesley Traub
25 - Active Thermal Figure Control for Large, Lightweight Honeycomb Mirrors in Vacuum and Space Roger Angel, Tae Kang and Brian Cuerden
26 - Thirty Meter Telescope Planet Formation Instrument B. Martin Levine, Michael Shao, Bruce Macintosh, Mitchell Troy, Rene Doyon, James Graham, Kevin Baker, Brian Bauman, Christian Marois, David Palmer, Donald Phillion, Lisa Poyneer, Ian Crossfield, Philip Dumont, Gene Serabyn, Chris Shelton, Gautam Vasisht, James K. Wallace, Jean-Francois Lavigne, Philippe Valee, Neil Rowlands, Ken Tam, and Daniel Hackett
27 - Shaped Pupil Coronagraph: State of the Art and Projections for TPF Performance and Readiness N. J. Kasdin, R. Belikov, E. Cady, M. Carr, J. Kay, M. Littman, L. Pueyo, R. J. Vanderbei, J. T. Trauger (PI), K. Balasubramanian, P. Echternach, A. Give'on, A. Kuhnert, S. Shaklan, F. Shi, A. R. Neureuther (PI), D. Ceperley, M. Miller, T. Shih, S. Kilston, M. Lieber, and J. Beall
28 - A Nulling Coronagraph for TPF-C B. M. Levine, M. Shao, R. Samuele, J. K. Wallace, S. Rao, R. Lyon, E. Schmidtlin, S. F. Fregoso, and F. Aguayo
29 - Lyot Coronagraphs with Band-Limited Masks Brian Kern
30 - Optical Vortex Coronagraphy David M. Palacios, G. A. Swartzlander Jr., and D. Mawet
31 - The Phase-Induced Amplitude Apodization Coronagraph Olivier Guyon, Eugene Pluzhnik, Shinishiro Tanaka, Basile Gallet, Stephen Colley, Robert Vanderbei, Stephen Ridgway, Roger Angel, Robert Woodruff, Mark Warren
32 - New Worlds Observer: An Occulter Based Concept for Terrestrial Planet Finding Jonathan Arenberg, Amy Lo, and Charles Lillie, Webster Cash, Charley Noecker


The following presentations are from the TPF-C Workshop held September 28-29 in Pasadena, California.

Coronagraph Workshop 2006 Presentations
  Title Author
03a - Noecker - Decision charts Charley Noecker
03b - Noecker - Decision process Charley Noecker
04 - Theoretical Analyses & Discussions Olivier Guyon
05 - TPF-C Optical Requirements Stuart Shaklan
06 - TPF Mirror Technology Assessment Gary Matthews
07a - Assembly, Integration and Test of Large Optical Systems Robert Egerman
07b - Primary mirrors for exoplanet imaging Roger Angel
08a - Mission Studies for TPF-C Bob Brown
08b - TPF-C: Size and Completeness Sarah Hunyadi
08b - TPF-C: Size and Completeness Movie Sarah Hunyadi
09 - COAST (Coronagraphic Off Axis Space Telescope) Jean Schneider
10 - Japanese Terrestrial Planet Finder M. Tamura
11 - The SPICA Coronagraph Project Lyu Abe
12 - Imaging EGPs with JWST/MIRI and VLT/SPHERE A. Boccaletti
13 - Hubble Space Telescope Coronagraphs John Krist
14 - Recent Coronagraph Experimental Studies Jun Nishikawa
15 - Lessons Learned from FQPM & AIC P. Baudoz
16 & 20 - Lyot Project & Gemini Planet Imager Remi Soummer
17 - The Near Infrared Coronagraphic Imager: NICI Update Christ Ftaclas
18a - PALM-3000 Richard Dekany
19a - High Contrast Imaging w/ Focal Plane Wavefront Sensing & PIAA for Subaru Telescopes Olivier Guyon
19b - HiCIAO M. Tamura
21 - First Laboratory Demonstration of Anti-Halo Apodization (AHA) Johanan L. Codona
22 - Laboratory Demonstrations of High-Contrast Coronagraphic Imaging John Trauger
23a - PFI on theThirty Meter Telescope Snapshot of Concept Study Michael Shao
23b - Charts for TPF-C workshop SNR for Nulling Coronagraph and Post Coron WFS Michael Shao
24a - Shaped Pupil Coronagraph N. Jeremy Kasdin, Ruslan Belikov
24b - Shaped Pupil Coronagraph Movie N. Jeremy Kasdin, Ruslan Belikov
25a - Projects & Missions Using Nulling and/or Calibration Wavefront Sensing Marty Levine
25b - The Visible Nulling Coronagraph Mike Shao
25c - Deep Nulling in Broadband Visible Light Kent Wallace
25d - Extra-Solar Planetary Imaging Coronagraph (EPIC) Rick Lyon
26 - Lyot coronagraphs with band-limited masks Brian Kern
27a - Optical Vortex Coronagraph - High Contrast Performance David Palacios
27b - Optical Vortex Coronagraph - Higher Order Concerns Grover Swartzlander
27c - Optical vortex coronagraph with subwavelength gratings D. Mawet
28a - Matrix score for PIAA Roger Angel
28b - Pubpil Mapping - Sensitivity Analysis Robert Vanderbei
28c - PIAAC Olivier Guyon
29a - External Occulter Trajectory Study Martin Lo
29b - Cash - ext occulters Webster Cash
31 - Optical Requirements Stuart Shaklan

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