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Bibliography of Coronagraphic Imaging Papers

• Spiders in Lyot Coronagraphs
  Anand Sivaramakrishnan and James P. Lloyd
  Astrophys. J. 633, 528-533 (2005).

Astrophysical Results with Stellar Coronagraphy

• A companion to AB Pic at the planet/brown dwarf boundary
  G. Chauvin, A.-M. Lagrange, B. Zuckerman, et al.
  Astron. Astrophys. 438, L29-L32 (2005).

• Astrometric and spectroscopic confirmation of a brown dwarf companion to GSC 08047-00232. VLT/NACO deep imaging and spectroscopic observations
  G. Chauvin, A.-M. Lagrange, F. Lacombe, et al.
  Astron. Astrophys. 430, 1027-1033 (2005).

• A giant planet candidate near a young brown dwarf. Direct VLT/NACO observations using IR wavefront sensing
  G. Chauvin, A.-M. Lagrange, C. Dumas, et al.
  Astron. Astrophys. 425, L29-L32 (2005).

• Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys Coronagraphic Imaging of the AU Microscopii Debris Disk
  J.E. Krist, D.R. Ardila, D.A. Golimowski, et al.
  Astron. J. 129 1008-1017 (2005).

• A Resolved Debris Disk around the G2 V Star HD 107146
  D.R. Ardila, D.A. Golimowski, J.E. Krist, et al.
  Astrophys. J. 617 L147-L150 (2004).

• Hubble Space Telescope ACS Coronagraphic Imaging of the Circumstellar Disk around HD 141569A
  M. Clampin, J.E. Krist, D.R. Ardila, et al.
  Astron. J. 126 385-392 (2003).

• Coronagraphic Imaging of 3C 273 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys
  A.R. Martel, H.C. Ford, H.D. Tran, et al.
  Astron. J. 125 2964-2974 (2003).

• Coronagraphic Imaging with the Hubble Space Telescope and the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph
  C.A. Grady, C.R. Proffitt, E. Malumuth, B.E. Woodgate, T.R. Gull, C.W. Bowers, S.R. Heap, R.A. Kimble, D. Lindler, P. Plait, and A. Weinberger
  Pub. Astron. Soc. Pac. 115, 1036-1049 (2003).

• A search for exozodiacal dust and faint companions around Sirius, Procyon, and Altair with the NICMOS coronagraph
  M.J. Kuchner and M.E. Brown
  Pub. Astron. Soc. Pac. 112, 827 (2000).

• Searching for faint companions to nearby stars with the Hubble Space Telescope
  D.J. Schroeder, D.A. Golimowski
  Pub. Astron. Soc. Pac. 108, 510-519 (1996).

• Discovery of a cool Brown Dwarf
  T. Nakajima, B.R. Oppenheimer, S.R. Kulkarni, D.A. Golimowski, K. Matthews, S.T. Durrance.
  Nature 378, 463 (1995).

• A coronagraphic search for Brown Dwarfs around nearby stars
  T. Nakajima, S.T. Durrance, D.A. Golimowski, and S.R. Kulkarni
  Astrophys. J. 428, 797 (1994).

Theoretical Limitations of Coronagraphy

• High contrast imaging from space: speckle nulling in a low aberration regime
  P. Borde and W.A. Traub
  Astrophys. J. accepted, 28 Oct 2005.

• Lyot Coronagraphy on Giant Segmented-Mirror Telescopes
  A. Sivaramakrishnan, N. Yaitskova
  Astrophys. J., 626, L65-L68 (2005).

• Limits of Adaptive Optics for High-Contrast Imaging
  O. Guyon
  Astrophys. J., 629, 592-614 (2005).

• Imaging Faint Sources within a Speckle Halo with Synchronous Interferometric Speckle Subtraction
  O. Guyon
  Astrophys. J., 615, 562-572 (2004).

• Remnant Speckles in a Highly Corrected Coronagraph
  E.E. Bloemhof
  Astrophys. J., 610, L69-L72 (2004).

• The Usefulness and Limits of Coronagraphy in the Presence of Pinned Speckles
  C. Aime and R. Soummer
  Astrophys. J., 612, L85-L88 (2004).

• Suppression of Speckle Noise by Speckle Pinning in Adaptive Optics
  E.E. Bloemhof
  Astrophys. J., 582, L59-L62 (2003).

• Speckle Symmetry with High-Contrast Coronagraphs
  A. Boccaletti, P. Riaud, D. Rouan
  Pub. Astron. Soc. Pac. 114, 132-136 (2002).

• Speckle decorrelation and dynamic range in speckle noise-limited imaging
  A. Sivaramakrishnan, J.P. Lloyd, P.E. Hodge, B.A. Macintosh
  Astrophys. J. 581 L59-L62 (2002).

• Imaging spectroscopy for extrasolar planet detection
  W.B. Sparks, H.C. Ford
  Astrophys. J. 578, 543-564 (2002).

• Ground-based coronagraphy with high-order adaptive optics
  A. Sivaramakrishnan, C.D. Koresko, R.B. Makidon, T. Berkefeld, and M.J. Kuchner
  Astrophys. J., 552, 397 (2001).

• High angular resolution coronography for adaptive optics
  F. Malbet
  Astron. Astrophys. 115, 161 (1996).

• High dynamic range imaging using a deformable mirror for space coronagraphy
  F. Malbet, J.W. Yu, and M. Shao
  Proc. Astron. Soc. Pac. 107, 386 (1995)

• Optimization and Performance of Adaptive Optics for Imaging Extrasolar Planets
  S.M. Stahl and D.G. Sandler
  Astrophys. J. 454, L153-L157 (1995).

• Ground-based imaging of extrasolar planets using adaptive optics
  J.R.P. Angel
  Nature 368, 203 (1994).

• On the feasibility of detecting extrasolar planets by reflected starlight using the Hubble Space Telescope
  R.A. Brown, C.J. Burrows
  Icarus 87, 484-497 (1990)

• Simplified solution of diffraction from a Lyot system
  Y.J. Wang and A.H. Vaughan
  Appl. Opt. 27, 27-29 (1988).

• Methods of detecting extra-solar planets 1. Imaging
  C.E. KenKnight
  Icarus 30, 422-433 (1977).

• The study of the solar corona and prominences without eclipses
  Bernard Lyot
  Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 99, 580 (1939).

• Étude de la couronne solaire en dehors des éclipses
  B. Lyot
  Zeitschrift für Astrophysik 5, 73 (1932).

Adaptive Optics Instrument Papers

• A stellar coronograph for the COME-ON-PLUS adaptive optics system .1. Description and performance
  J.L. Beuzit, D. Mouillet, A.M. Lagrange, J. Paufique
  Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 125, 175-182 (1997)

Papers on Stops and Image Masks

• Eighth-Order Image Masks for Terrestrial Planet Finding
  M.J. Kuchner, J. Crepp, and J. Ge
  Astrophys. J. 628 466-473 (2005).

• Using Notch-Filter Masks for High-Contrast Imaging of Extrasolar Planets
  J.H. Debes, J. Ge, M.J. Kuchner, and M. Rogosky
  Astrophys. J. 608 1095-1099 (2004).

• Notch filter masks: practical image masks for planet-finding coronagraphs
  M.J. Kuchner and D.N. Spergel
  Astrophys. J. 594 617-626 (2003).

• A coronagraph with a band-limited mask for finding terrestrial planets
  M.J. Kuchner and W.A. Traub
  Astrophys. J. 570, 900 (2002).

Papers on Pupil Masks

• Checkerboard-Mask Coronagraphs for High-Contrast Imaging
  R.J. Vanderbei, N.J. Kasdin, D.N. Spergel
  Astrophys. J. 615 555-561 (2004).

• Circularly Symmetric Apodization via Star-shaped Masks
  R.J. Vanderbei, D.N. Spergel, J.N. Kasdin
  Astrophys. J. 599 686-694 (2003).

• Spiderweb Masks for High-Contrast Imaging
  R.J. Vanderbei, D.N. Spergel, J.N. Kasdin
  Astrophys. J. 590 593-603 (2003).

• First high-contrast imaging using a Gaussian aperture pupil mask
  J.H. Debes, J.A. Ge, A. Chakraborty
  Astrophys. J. 572, L165-L168 (2002).

• A new pupil for detecting extra-solar planets
  D.N. Spergel
  Appl. Opt. submitted (2001). astro-ph/0101142

Papers on Apodized Pupils

• Apodized Pupil Lyot Coronagraphs for Arbitrary Telescope Apertures
  R. Soummer
  Astrophys. J. 618 L161-L164 (2005).

• Radon approach to shaped and apodized apertures for imaging exoplanets
  C. Aime
  Astron. Astrophys. 434 785-794 (2005).

• Principle of an Achromatic Prolate Apodized Lyot Coronagraph
  C. Aime
  Pub. Astron. Soc. Pac. 117, 1012-1019 (2005).

• Calculation of optimized apodizers for a Terrestrial Planet Finder coronagraphic telescope
  R. Gonsalves and P. Nisenson
  Pub. Astron. Soc. Pac. 115, 706-711 (2003).

• Extrasolar Planet Finding via Optimal Apodized and Shaped Pupil Coronagraphs
  N.J. Kasdin, R.J. Vanderbei, D.N. Spergel, and M.G. Littman
  Astrophys. J. 582, 1147-1161 (2003).

• Stellar coronagraphy with prolate apodized circular apertures
  R. Soummer, C. Aime, and P.E. Falloon
  Astron. Astrophys. 397, 1161-1172 (2003).

• Total coronagraphic extinction of rectangular apertures using linear prolate apodizations
  C. Aime, R. Soummer, A. Ferrari
  Astron. Astrophys. 389, 334-344 (2002).

• Interferometric apodization of rectangular apertures - Application to stellar coronagraphy
  C. Aime, R. Soummer, A. Ferrari
  Astron. Astrophys. 379, 697-707 (2001).

• Detection of Earth-like Planets Using Apodized Telescopes
  P. Nisenson and C. Papaliolios
  Astrophys. J. 548, L201 (2001).

• Direct imaging of nonsolar planets with infrared telescopes using apodized coronagraphs
  S.M. Watson, J.P. Mills, S.L. Gaiser, D.J. Diner
  Appl. Opt. 30, 3253-3262 (1991).

• Direct Detection Systems, Chapter 3 in
  Project Orion: A Design Study for Detecting Extrasolar Planets
  NASA Publication SP-436, D.C. Black, Ed. (1980).

• Apodisation
  P. Jacquinot, B. Roizen-Dossier
  Prog. Opt. 3, 31-186 (1964).

Papers on Phase Masks

• Four quadrant phase mask K-band coronagraphy of NGC 1068 with NAOS-CONICA at VLT
  D. Gratadour, D. Rouan, A. Boccaletti, P. Riaud, Y. Clénet
  Astron. Astrophys. 429, 433-437 (2005).

• The Four-Quadrant Phase Mask Coronagraph. IV. First Light at the Very Large Telescope
  A. Boccaletti, P. Riaud, P. Baudoz, J. Baudrand, D. Rouan, D. Gratadour, F. Lacombe, A.-M. Lagrange,
  Pub. Astron. Soc. Pac. 116, 1016-1071 (2004).

• The four-quadrant phase mask coronagraph. III. Laboratory performance
  P. Riaud, A. Boccaletti, J. Baudrand, and D. Rouan
  Pub. Astron. Soc. Pac. 115, 712-719 (2003).

• Achromatic dual-zone phase mask stellar coronagraph
  R. Soummer, K. Dohlen and C. Aime
  Astron. Astrophys. 403, 369-381 (2003).

• The Four-Quadrant Phase Mask Coronagraph. II. Simulations.
  P. Riaud et al.,
  Pub. Astron. Soc. Pac. 113, 1145 (2001)

• The Four-Quadrant Phase-Mask Coronagraph. I. Principle
  D. Rouan, P. Riaud, A. Boccaletti, Y. Clenet, and A. Labeyrie
  Pub. Astron. Soc. Pac. 112, 1479-1486 (2000)

• The nulling stellar coronagraph: laboratory tests and performance evaluation
  O. Guyon, C. Roddier, J.E. Graves, F. Roddier, S. Cuevas, C. Espejo, S. Gonzales, A. Martinez, G. Bisiacchi, V. Vuntesmeri
  Pub. Astron. Soc. Pac. 111, 1322-1330 (1999).

• Stellar Coronagraph with Phase Mask
  F. Roddier and C. Roddier
  Pub. Astron. Soc. Pac. 109, 815-820 (1997).

Papers on Pupil Mapping and Phase-Induced Amplitude Apodization

• Pupil Mapping in Two Dimensions for High-Contrast Imaging
  R.J. Vanderbei and W.A. Traub
  Astrophys. J. 626 1079-1090 (2005).

• Laboratory Demonstration and Numerical Simulations of the Phase-Induced Amplitude Apodization
  R. Galicher, O. Guyon, M. Otsubo, H. Suto, S. Ridgway
  Pub. Astron. Soc. Pac. 117, 411-420 (2005).

• Exoplanet Imaging with a Phase-induced Amplitude Apodization Coronagraph. I. Principle
  O. Guyon, E.A. Pluzhnik, R. Galicher, F. Martinache, S.T. Ridgway, R.A. Woodruff
  Astrophys. J. 622, 744-758 (2005).

• Two-Mirror Apodization for High-Contrast Imaging
  W.A. Traub and R.J. Vanderbei
  Astrophys. J. 599 695-701 (2003).

• Phase-induced amplitude apodization of telescope pupils for extrasolar terrestrial planet imaging
  O. Guyon
  Astron. Astrophys. 404, 379-387 (2003)

Hybrid Interferometer/Coronagraph Designs

• Stellar Coronagraphy: Study and Test of a Hybrid Interfero-Coronagraph
  P. Baudoz and A. Boccaletti
  Pub. Astron. Soc. Pac. 117, 1004-1011 (2005).

• Limitation of the Pupil Replication Technique in the Presence of Instrumental Defects
  P. Riaud, D. Mawet, and O. Absil
  Astrophys. J. 628, L81-L84 (2005).

• Pupil Replication for Exoplanet Imaging
  A.H. Greenaway, F. Spaan, V. Mourai
  Astrophys. J. 618, L165-L165 (2005).

• Stellar coronagraphy with a redundant array of telescopes in space: The multiple mask coronagraph
  C. Aime, R. Soummer, B. Lopez
  Astron. Astrophys. 370, 680-688 (2001)

• On-sky Observations with an Achromatic Hybrid Phase Knife Coronagraph in the Visible L. Abe, M. Beaulieu, F. Vakili, J. Gay, J.-P. Rivet, S. Derveaux and A. Domiciano
  Astron. Astrophys. 400, 385-392 (2003)

• Phase Knife Coronagraph: II - Laboratory results
  L. Abe, A. Domiciano de Souza Jr., F. Vakili, and J. Gay
  Astron. Astrophys. submitted (2005)

• The achromatic phase knife coronagraph
  L. Abe, F. Vakili, and A. Boccaletti
  Astron. Astrophys. 374 1161-1168 (2001)

Nulling Coronagraphy

• Achromatic interfero-coronography: II. Effective performance on the sky
  P. Baudoz, Y. Rabbia, and J. Gay
  Astron. Astrophys. Sup. Ser. 145, 341-350 (2000).

• Achromatic interfero-coronography: I. Formalism and theoretical capabilities for ground-based observations
  P. Baudoz, Y. Rabbia, and J. Gay
  Astron. Astrophys. Sup. Ser. 141, 319-329 (2000).

• Le coronographe interférentiel achromatique,
  J. Gay, Y. Rabbia, P. Baudoz
  Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences Paris, 325, Série II b, Astronomical techniques, 51-56 (1997)

• Principe d'un coronographe interférentiel
  J. Gay and Y. Rabbia
  Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences Paris 322, Série II b, Astronomical Techniques, 265-271 (1996).

Various Homepages and Other Links

• Marc Kuchner's Homepage
• Jeremy Kasdin's TPF Lab
• Robert Vanderbei's Homepage
• David Spergel's Homepage
• Pierre Baudoz
• Anthony Boccaletti
• Christ Ftaclas
• Pierre Riaud
• Encyclopaedia of Extrasolar Planets

• Space Telescope Science Institute
• SOHO listings.
• Subaru CIAO Coronagraph
• VLT NAOS-CONICA

• NICMOS Coronagraph
• LASCO/SOHO Coronagraph Homepage
• Hubble ACS Coronagraph

Conference Proceedings

• Astronomy with High Contrast Imaging II
  Nice, France, October 6-10, 2003
  C. Aime and R. Soummer eds.
  EAS Conference Series 12 (2004).

• Astronomy with High Contrast Imaging
  Nice, France, May 13-16, 2002
  C. Aime and R. Soummer eds.
  EAS Publications Series 8 (2003).

  Tables of contents and selected Electronic Journals
  A&A, A&A Sup. Ser., AJ, ApJ, Appl. Opt., BAAS, C. R. Acad. Sci., Icarus, JOSA A, MNRAS, New Ast, PASA, PASP.

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