HCIT
Full testbed name
High Contrast Imaging Testbed Facility (HCIT)
Managing institution
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Main scientific focus
High Contrast Imaging Technology Development
Environment of the testbed
HCIT is a ISO 7 clean room (class 10000), with three optical tables. The optical tables are sits on Minus K's Passive Mechanical Vibration Isolators inside two vacuum chamber. The Chambers provide a space-like test environment (turbulence free and thermally stable). Each table has a supercontinuum laser sources, remote actuation and selection of optical elements, deformable mirrors, thermal sensors, local thermal control loops, silicon CCD/CMOS sensors and one of the tables has an Integrated Field Spectrometer as well.
Key hardware items
Vacuum Chamber
Remote Actuation
Supercontinuum Laser Sources
Minus K's Passive Mechanical Vibration Isolators
Deformable Mirrors
Integrated Field Spectrometer
Current status
On activity with multiple of collaborations.
Software language
Python
Is this software shared?
No.
Reference papers
Status of NASA's stellar astrometry testbeds for exoplanet detection: Science and technology overview, Bendek et al. 2021
Prediction and evaluation of the image of the WFIRST coronagraph pupil at the shaped-pupil mask, Marx et al. 2020
Testbed demonstration of high-contrast coronagraph imaging in search for Earth-like exoplanets, Seo et al. 2019
Shaped pupil coronagraph: disk science mask experimental verification and testing, Marx et al. 2018