no code implementations • 21 Dec 2020 • Lucie Leboulleux, Élodie Choquet, Elsa Huby, Garima Singh, Faustine Cantalloube
Astronomy and science are fields in which specific groups remain under-represented despite multiple studies that investigate this issue and propose solutions.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
no code implementations • 15 Dec 2020 • Lucie Leboulleux, Raphaël Galicher, Eric Gendron, Pierre Baudoz, Gérard Rousset
The search for Earth-like exoplanets requires high-contrast and high-angular resolution instruments, which designs can be very complex: they need an adaptive optics system to compensate for the effect of the atmospheric turbulence on image quality and a coronagraph to reduce the starlight and enable the companion imaging.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics