Fast cadence speckle-free high-contrast imaging: SFADI and SFI
Date Issued
2018
Abstract
We present the research and developement status of the Speckle-Free Angular Differential Imaging method (SFADI), that we developed for the SHARK-VIS high-contrast imager for the LBT telescope. The technique bases on the acquisition of kHz frame-rate image sequences, which we combine in post-processing after speckle identification and suppression in each frame. With respect to the standard angular differential imaging, this method reaches a much smoother residual background and hence higher detection contrast at a given signal-to-noise ratio. Furthermore, it can reveal faint extended sources around bright central stars, and can use de-rotated images as well as quick second-lasting sequences. We reached a contrast of around 1e-5 for integration times of the order of tens of minutes at 100 mas for a 5.7 magnitude star, as we demonstrated on both a real-sky acquisition and at the SHARK-VIS laboratory test bench. Such long sequences though produces a large amount of data (around a million frames every 15 minutes) that we manage to processed in a reasonable computation time with the described implementation scheme.
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Adaptive Optics Systems VI
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Close, Laird M.; Schreiber, Laura; Schmidt, Dirk
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10703
Start page
107032U
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Adaptive Optics Systems VI
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Austin, Texas, United States
Conferenece date
10-15 June, 2018
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0277-786X
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2018SPIE10703E..2UL
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open.access
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