The Effects of Binary Reference Stars on JWST NIRCam Coronagraphy

arXiv:2504.07190 · astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2025-04-09 · Read on arXiv

Klaus Subbotina Stephenson, Aarynn Carter, Andrew Skemer

astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.EP

Submitted: 2025-04-09

Updated: 2026-08-19

Terminology

• James Webb Space Telescope — 6× in this paper
• Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers — 6× in this paper
• Reference Differential Imaging — 4× in this paper
• Adam — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Angular Differential Imaging — 2× in this paper
• Aperture — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Field Of View — 1× in this paper
• Point-Spread Function — 1× in this paper
• Signal-to-Noise Ratio — 1× in this paper
• Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• A White Paper Submitted to The National Academy of Science's Committee on Exoplanet Science Strategy: Observing Exoplanets with the James Webb Space Telescope

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