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Pushing the Limits of the Coronagraphic Occulters on Hubble Space Telescope/Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph Pushing the limits of the coronagraphic occulters on Hubble Space Telescope/Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph Item Type Article Authors Debes, John H.; Ren, Bin; Schneider, Glenn Citation John H. Debes, Bin Ren, and Glenn Schneider "Pushing the limits of the coronagraphic occulters on Hubble Space Telescope/ Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph," Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 5(3), 035003 (13 June 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.5.3.035003 DOI 10.1117/1.jatis.5.3.035003 Publisher SPIE-SOC PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS Journal JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES INSTRUMENTS AND SYSTEMS Rights Copyright © The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. Download date 07/10/2021 08:17:01 Item License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Version Final published version Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10150/635020 Pushing the limits of the coronagraphic occulters on Hubble Space Telescope/Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph John H. Debes Bin Ren Glenn Schneider John H. Debes, Bin Ren, Glenn Schneider, “Pushing the limits of the coronagraphic occulters on Hubble Space Telescope/Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph,” J. Astron. Telesc. Instrum. Syst. 5(3), 035003 (2019), doi: 10.1117/1.JATIS.5.3.035003. Downloaded From: https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/Journal-of-Astronomical-Telescopes,-Instruments,-and-Systems on 07 Nov 2019 Terms of Use: https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/terms-of-use Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 5(3), 035003 (Jul–Sep 2019) Pushing the limits of the coronagraphic occulters on Hubble Space Telescope/Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph John H. Debes,a,* Bin Ren,b,c and Glenn Schneiderd aSpace Telescope Science Institute, AURA for ESA, Baltimore, Maryland, United States bJohns Hopkins University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Baltimore, Maryland, United States cJohns Hopkins University, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Baltimore, Maryland, United States dUniversity of Arizona, Steward Observatory and the Department of Astronomy, Tucson Arizona, United States Abstract. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) contains the only currently operating coronagraph in space that is not trained on the Sun. In an era of extreme-adaptive- optics-fed coronagraphs, and with the possibility of future space-based coronagraphs, we re-evaluate the con- trast performance of the STIS CCD camera. The 50CORON aperture consists of a series of occulting wedges and bars, including the recently commissioned BAR5 occulter. We discuss the latest procedures in obtaining high-contrast imaging of circumstellar disks and faint point sources with STIS. For the first time, we develop a noise model for the coronagraph, including systematic noise due to speckles, which can be used to predict the performance of future coronagraphic observations. Further, we present results from a recent calibration program that demonstrates better than 10−6 point-source contrast at 0.6″, ranging to 3 × 10−5 point-source contrast at 0.25″. These results are obtained by a combination of subpixel grid dithers, multiple spacecraft orientations, and postprocessing techniques. Some of these same techniques will be employed by future space-based corona- graphic missions. We discuss the unique aspects of STIS coronagraphy relative to ground-based adaptive- optics-fed coronagraphs. © The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. Distribution or reproduction of this work in whole or in part requires full attribution of the original publication, including its DOI. [DOI: 10.1117/1.JATIS.5.3.035003] Keywords: image processing; speckle; point spread functions; planets; charge-coupled-device imagers. Paper 18123 received Nov. 30, 2018; accepted for publication May 15, 2019; published online Jun. 13, 2019. 1 Introduction STIS. The occulters are combined with a hard-edged Lyot stop Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) is a second gen- in the pupil plane that is present for all imaging modes of STIS. eration instrument for Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that was The combination of the occulters and Lyot stop creates a simple coronagraph that marginally suppresses the diffraction pattern of installed in early 1997 (Ref. 1) during Servicing Mission Two. It 4 possesses a comprehensive collection of imaging and spectro- the telescope. ’ scopic modes that span from the far ultraviolet to the near- In this paper, we investigate the limits to STIS s performance infrared (IR). It is currently the oldest operating instrument with respect to total-intensity, visible-light, high-contrast imag- on board HST that primarily obtains science observations. It ing. We determine what sets its limits on contrast performance at retains a significant proportion of science time on HST, with small inner working angles; in addition, we can assess its impli- 19% of all general observer (GO) orbits during cycles 23 to 25. cations for what might be possible with second-generation high- The high-contrast imaging mode on STIS includes a focal contrast imagers in space, e.g., the coronagraphic instrument (CGI) proposed for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope plane mask designated 50CORON. The focal plane mask con- 6,7 sists of two wedges (A and B) joined perpendicularly, along (WFIRST) mission. In Sec. 2, we talk about general strategies with a wide occulting bar at the top of the field of view (FOV), to obtain high contrast with STIS, building upon previous 8,9,10 as projected on-sky in HST’s science aperture instrument results; therein we also include the development of a coro- frame,2 and a narrow occulting finger on the right edge of nagraphic noise model, which can be used to predict the perfor- the FOV (see Fig. 1). On the one hand, positions on the wedges mance of a given observing strategy; together with an analysis of are designated according to the width of the wedge at that loca- the impact that charge transfer inefficiency has on high-contrast tion: for example, WEDGEA1.0 corresponds to the location on imaging with CCDs. In Sec. 3, we present a calibration program the vertical wedge with a width of 1.0″. On the other hand, the recently obtained with BAR5 to demonstrate high-contrast capa- other apertures have designed lengths in the names: a wide bilities with STIS that rival current ground-based near-IR-opti- occulting bar named BAR10 is 10″ long, and an occulting finger mized coronagraphs, which are equipped with extreme adaptive denoted BAR5 has a length of 5″. BAR5 was bent during the optics (AO) systems, as well as a discussion of STIS’s sensitiv- assembly of STIS and was only recently commissioned for high- ity to point sources and circumstellar disks. In Sec. 4,we contrast imaging via the outsourced calibration Program 12923 describe a handful of common science cases that may require (PI: A. Gáspár).3 It is now a fully supported aperture location for STIS’s coronagraphic aperture and the considerations required. In Sec. 5, we apply our new STIS coronagraphic noise model to investigate the potential of WFIRST to conduct high-contrast *Address all correspondence to John H. Debes, E-mail: [email protected] imaging beyond its dark hole, and in Sec. 6, we list the areas Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 035003-1 Jul–Sep 2019 • Vol. 5(3) Downloaded From: https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/Journal-of-Astronomical-Telescopes,-Instruments,-and-Systems on 07 Nov 2019 Terms of Use: https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/terms-of-use Debes, Ren, and Schneider: Pushing the limits of the coronagraphic occulters on Hubble Space. jB − Vj or jV − Ij colors <0.05. These early programs found WEDGEA2.8 that the contrast achieved with a given aperture location is the same–thus paving the way for combining aperture positions to maximize angular coverage or sensitivity. The 50CORON WEDGEA2.5 BAR10 aperture mode is operated without any filters and the effective bandpass of the aperture is defined by the red and blue wing sensitivity cut-offs of the CCD detector. The broad effective BAR5 bandpass thus creates different PSF wings as a function of the WEDGEA2.0 host star’s SED. Other high-contrast techniques were also inves- tigated, such as coronagraphic spectroscopy with the STIS long WEDGEA1.8 slit gratings,11 and placing bright sources outside of the FoV to attempt deep imaging of nearby stars, such as ϵ Eri.12 With the refurbishment of STIS in 2009 during the fourth HST servicing mission (SM4),13,14 STIS became the sole space-based coronagraph in operation on HST since ACS/ WEDGEB1.0 WEDGEB1.8 WEDGEB2.0 WEDGEB2.5 WEDGEB2.8 HRC was not repaired during the mission. Since SM4, multiple WEDGEA1.0 programs have used the STIS 50CORON aperture to obtain high contrast at large separations to directly image and characterize the orbit of Fomalhaut b, to directly image at high signal-to- WEDGEA0.6 noise debris disks previously unobserved in the visible, and to find very faint disks.10,15,16 Many of these programs adopted observations at multiple spacecraft orientations (known as mul- Fig. 1 The 50CORON aperture mask, which is designed to have a full tiroll differential imaging, MRDI), and some used the central FoV of 52 00 × 52 00 over 1024 × 1024 pixels (∼0.05078 00 pixel−1 reso- star itself as a reference, akin to ground-based angular differen- lution element ∼0.07 00). Red diamonds denote supported aperture tial imaging techniques.17,18 locations within the 50CORON mask. The STIS coronagraphic Concurrently, postprocessing techniques that suppress mode is unfiltered, allowing light over the full wavelength range of sen- ∼0 20 ∼1 03 μ speckle noise, such as the locally optimized combination of sitivity for the CCD, i.e., from . to . m, with a pivot wave- images (LOCI) algorithm,19 the Karheunen–Loève image length λ ¼ 0.5852 μm and Δλ∕λ ≈ 75% (cf.
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