ROUGEOT , R.

Context. This study is made in the context of the future solar coronagraph ASPIICS of the ESA formation-flying mission Proba-3. Aims. In the context of solar coronagraphy, we provide a comparative study of the theoretical performance of serrated (or toothed) external occulters by varying the number and size of the teeth, which we compare to the...

Context . The solar coronagraph ASPIICS will fly on the future ESA formation flying mission Proba-3. The instrument combines an external occulter of diameter 1.42 m and a Lyot solar coronagraph of 5 cm diameter, located downstream at a distance of 144 m. Aims . The theoretical performance of the externally occulted Lyot coronagraph has been...

Aims: This work deals with image reconstruction in a vignetting zone where the point spread function becomes evanescent and the image undergoes a Fredholm transformation. The application of this method is aimed at the reconstruction of the solar corona in the vignetting zone of the ASPIICS coronagraph. It extends on a previous paper in several...

Aims. This study is carried out in the context of data processing of the solar coronagraph ASPIICS of the future formation-flying mission Proba-3, which is expected to provide images of the corona very close to the limb. There will be a transition zone of the order of 100 arcsec close to the limb, where the telescope aperture suffers a strong...