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doi: 10.1117/12.2677450 , 10.5281/zenodo.8312809 , 10.48550/arxiv.2309.02044 , 10.5281/zenodo.8312808
arXiv: 2309.02044
handle: 1887/3720222
doi: 10.1117/12.2677450 , 10.5281/zenodo.8312809 , 10.48550/arxiv.2309.02044 , 10.5281/zenodo.8312808
arXiv: 2309.02044
handle: 1887/3720222
The Coronagraph Instrument of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman Coronagraph) will be capable of both total intensity and polarization measurements of circumstellar disks. The polarimetric performance is impacted by polarization effects introduced by all mirrors before the Wollaston prisms. In this paper, we aim to characterize these effects for the Roman Coronagraph in bands 1 and 4 using the FALCO and PROPER packages. We simulate the effect of polarization aberrations that impact the polarimetric contrast and the instrumental polarization effects to study the polarimetric accuracy. We include spacecraft rolls, but leave out systematic camera noise. We find that polarimetric differential imaging (PDI) improves the contrast by a factor of six. The PDI contrast of ∼ 8 × 10−11 is limited by polarized speckles from instrumental polarization effects and polarization aberrations. By injecting polarized companions with at various contrast levels and demodulating their polarimetric signal, we recover their source Stokes vectors within 2%.
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Polarimetry, Roman Space Telescope, high-contrast imaging, direct imaging
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Polarimetry, Roman Space Telescope, high-contrast imaging, direct imaging
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