Telescope to Observe Planetary Systems (TOPS): A high throughput 1.2-m visible telescope with a small inner working angle

Olivier Guyon; James R.P. Angel; Charles Bowers; James Burge; Adam Burrows; Johanan Codona; Thomas Greene; Masanori Iye; James Kasting; Hubert Martin; Donald W. McCarthy; Victoria Meadows; Michael Meyer; Eugene A. Pluzhnik; Norman Sleep; Tony Spears; Motohide Tamura; Domenick Tenerelli; Robert Vanderbei; Bruce Woodgate; Robert A. Woodruff; Neville J. Woolf

doi:10.1117/12.672498

Telescope to Observe Planetary Systems (TOPS): A high throughput 1.2-m visible telescope with a small inner working angle

Olivier Guyon, James R.P. Angel, Charles Bowers, James Burge, Adam Burrows, Johanan Codona, Thomas Greene, Masanori Iye, James Kasting, Hubert Martin, Donald W. McCarthy, Victoria Meadows, Michael Meyer, Eugene A. Pluzhnik, Norman Sleep, Tony Spears, Motohide Tamura, Domenick Tenerelli, Robert Vanderbei, Bruce WoodgateRobert A. Woodruff, Neville J. Woolf

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Abstract

The Telescope to Observe Planetary Systems (TOPS) is a proposed space mission to image in the visible (0.4-0.9μzm) planetary systems of nearby stars simultaneously in 16 spectral bands (resolution R≈20). For the ≈10 most favorable stars, it will have the sensitivity to discover 2R_E rocky planets within habitable zones and characterize their surfaces or atmospheres through spectrophotometry. Many more massive planets and debris discs will be imaged and characterized for the first time. With a 1.2m visible telescope, the proposed mission achieves its power by exploiting the most efficient and robust coronagraphic and wavefront control techniques. The Phase-Induced Amplitude Apodization (PIAA) coronagraph used by TOPS allows planet detection at 2λ/d with nearly 100% throughput and preserves the telescope angular resolution. An efficient focal plane wavefront sensing scheme accurately measures wavefront aberrations which are fed back to the telescope active primary mirror. Fine wavefront control is also performed independently in each of 4 spectral channels, resulting in a system that is robust to wavefront chromaticity.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation I
Subtitle of host publication	Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.672498
State	Published - 2006
Event	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation I: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter - Orlando, FL, United States Duration: May 24 2006 → May 31 2006

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	6265 I
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X

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Other	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation I: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter
Country/Territory	United States
City	Orlando, FL
Period	5/24/06 → 5/31/06

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Guyon, O., Angel, J. R. P., Bowers, C., Burge, J., Burrows, A., Codona, J., Greene, T., Iye, M., Kasting, J., Martin, H., McCarthy, D. W., Meadows, V., Meyer, M., Pluzhnik, E. A., Sleep, N., Spears, T., Tamura, M., Tenerelli, D., Vanderbei, R., ... Woolf, N. J. (2006). Telescope to Observe Planetary Systems (TOPS): A high throughput 1.2-m visible telescope with a small inner working angle. In Space Telescopes and Instrumentation I: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Article 62651R (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 6265 I). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.672498

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Telescope to Observe Planetary Systems (TOPS): A high throughput 1.2-m visible telescope with a small inner working angle. / Guyon, Olivier; Angel, James R.P.; Bowers, Charles et al.
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation I: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter. 2006. 62651R (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 6265 I).

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