The Planetary Imaging Concept Testbed Using a Recoverable Experiment - Coronagraph (PICTURE-C) mission will directly image debris disks and exozodiacal dust around nearby stars from a high-altitude balloon using a vector vortex coronagraph. The first flight of PICTURE-C was recently rescheduled by NASA for September, 2019. This paper describes preparations for the first flight of PICTURE-C, including the final mission design, flight integration process and observation plan. Laboratory measurements of the low-order wavefront control system and coronagraph performance are also presented.


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    Title :

    The PICTURE-C exoplanetary direct imaging balloon mission: first flight preparation



    Conference:

    Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets IX ; 2019 ; San Diego,California,United States


    Published in:

    Proc. SPIE ; 11117


    Publication date :

    2019-09-09





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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