2004 Michelson Summer School
California
Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California July 20-23, 2004
WEDNESDAY
Opening Comments - G.
van Belle (Michelson Science Center)
INTRODUCTION TO
HIGH-CONTRAST IMAGING
•Introduction to Coronagraph Optics - W. Traub (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics)
Introduction to Fourier
Optics – R. Allen (Space Telescope Science Institute)
ENGINEERING AND
SCIENCE CONSIDERATIONS
•Wavefront Estimation
& Control: Space – J. Trauger (Jet
Propulsion Laboratory)
Wavefront
Estimation & Control: Ground – D.
Gavel (UCO/Lick Observatory)
Scientific Objectives
of High Contrast Imaging – K. Stapelfeldt (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
•
THURSDAY
KEY CORONAGRAPH TYPES
•Key Types Introduction – W. Traub
(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
•Image Plane
Coronagraphs – A. Sivaramakrishnan (Space Telescope Science Institute)
•Pupil
Plane Coronagraphs – J. Kasdin (Princeton University)
Pupil Mapping & Densification
Coronagraphs – O. Guyon (Subaru Telescope)
Nulling Coronagraphs – B. Lane (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
•Phase Mask Coronagraphs
– R. Soummer (Space Telescope Science Institute)
GROUND-BASED
CORONAGRAPHS
•Ground-based Coronagraphs
& Differential Spectral and Polarimetric Imaging with AO – L.
Close (University of Arizona)
•Companion Searches –
J-L. Beuzit (Laboratoire d’Astrophysique Observatoire de Grenoble)
•
FRIDAY
GROUND-BASED
CORONAGRAPH DEVELOPMENT
•Coronagraphic Spectroscopy
– B. Woodgate (NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center)
•Additional
Coronagraphic Science – B. Oppenheimer (American Museum of Natural
History)
10-6, 10-8, and 10-10 Issues–
R. Dekany (California Institute of Technology) & B. Macintosh
(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
SPACE-BASED
CORONAGRAPHS
Hubble Space Telescope Coronagraphs – J. Krist (Space Telescope Science Institute)
<>Hubble Space Telescope Coronagraphs – J. Krist (Space Telescope Science Institute)
Eclipse Coronagraph –
J. Trauger (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
•Terrestrial Planet
finder-Coronagraph – S. Shaklan (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
•
Concluding Remarks - G.
van Belle (Michelson Science Center)
2004 Michelson Interferometry Summer School
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, July 20-23, 2004