Limitation of the Pupil Replication Technique in the Presence of Instrumental Defects
English
Riaud, Pierre[Université de Liège - ULg > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Astroph. extragalactique et observations spatiales (AEOS) >]
Mawet, Dimitri[Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique de Liège, 17 Allée du 6 Août, Bât B5c, B-4000 Liège, Belgium; , mawet@astro.ulg.ac.be, absil@astro.ulg.ac.be; Postdoctoral Astronomer, under PAI contract.]
Absil, Olivier[Université de Liège - ULg > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Astroph. extragalactique et observations spatiales (AEOS) >]
[en] Stars: Planetary Systems ; Stars: Imaging ; Techniques: High Anular Resolution
[en] Pupil replication has been proposed by Greenaway et al. as a new optical technique to improve the suppression of starlight in high dynamic imaging. This Letter extends numerical simulations in the two-dimensional case with various realistic imperfections (surface error, chromatic smearing, and pupil shift). These results demonstrate some strong limitations compared to single-pupil apodization techniques for exoplanet detection.