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The expected performance of nulling at the VLTI down to 5 mas
Laugier, Romain; Defrere, Denis; Matter, Alexis et al.
2022In Proceedings of SPIE: The International Society for Optical Engineering, 12183
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Keywords :
Nulling interferometry; simulator; kernel-nulling; VLTI; Hi-5; Photonics; Double-Bracewell
Abstract :
[en] While VLTI offers the recombination of four 8-m telescopes with baselines of more than 100m, it has never hosted a dedicated high-contrast nulling beam-combiner. The SCIFY project aims to design, build and commission Hi- 5, the first nulling beam-combiner of the VLTI, optimized for the detection and characterization of young giant exoplanets near the snow line, with spectroscopy up to R=2000 in the L’ band. It will make use of advanced four-beam nulling combination schemes, like double-Bracewell and kernel-nulling implemented in a single-mode photonic device to produce differential nulled outputs with self-calibrating properties. In the wavelength range of interest, both instrumental errors and background noise are significant. In order to estimate the practical performance of these different configurations in the presence of instrumental errors and further optimize the instrumental design, we have developed SCIFYsim. SCIFYsim is an end-to-end simulator geared towards single- mode beam combiners with of a wide variety of instrumental errors, like optical path difference residuals from fringe tracking, wavefront error at the injection, longitudinal dispersion, chromaticity of the combiner chip, and more. In order to evaluate the performance of the combined spectral channels, we use statistical tests based on likelihood ratios, and account for the covariance in the data. In this paper, we present the expected performance of Hi-5 with a few examples and discuss the main technical limitations to reach the contrast required to image young giant exoplanets.
Research Center/Unit :
CSL - Centre Spatial de Liège - ULiège
STAR - Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research - ULiège
Disciplines :
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Laugier, Romain
Defrere, Denis  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophysique, géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Planetary & Stellar systems Imaging Laboratory
Matter, Alexis
Gross, Simon
Courtney-Barrer, Benjamin
Dannert, Felix
Woillez, Julien
Absil, Olivier  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Unités de recherche interfacultaires > Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research (STAR)
Dandumont, Colin  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Unités de recherche interfacultaires > Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research (STAR)
Language :
English
Title :
The expected performance of nulling at the VLTI down to 5 mas
Publication date :
26 August 2022
Event name :
SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2022
Event organizer :
SPIE
Event place :
Montréal, Canada
Event date :
du 17 juillet au 22 juillet 2022
Audience :
International
Journal title :
Proceedings of SPIE: The International Society for Optical Engineering
ISSN :
0277-786X
eISSN :
1996-756X
Publisher :
International Society for Optical Engineering, Bellingham, United States - Washington
Volume :
12183
Peer reviewed :
Editorial Reviewed verified by ORBi
European Projects :
H2020 - 866070 - SCIFY - Self-Calibrated Interferometry for Exoplanet Spectroscopy
Name of the research project :
SCIFY
Funders :
ERC - European Research Council
EU - European Union
Funding number :
866070
Funding text :
SCIFY has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement CoG - 866070).
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