Coherent differential imaging: squeezing additional imaging contrast behind the self-coherent camera on SPIDERS
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Abstract
Coherent Differential Imaging (CDI) is a very promising post-processing technique for imaging faint planets and disks with a self-coherent camera (SCC). The SCC we have built in the Subaru Pathfinder Instrument for Detecting Exoplanets and Recovering Spectra (SPIDERS) employs common path interferometry to distinguish coherent starlight from incoherent planet/disk light. Using closed-loop real-time correction, the SCC greatly improves the achievable imaging contrast. The CDI technique is applied during image post-processing to further remove residual speckle artifacts that were not fully corrected by the SSC loop, deepening the imaging contrast. In this proceeding we describe the procedures developed to carry out CDI corrections, as well as the technical challenges encountered and solutions implemented along the way. The main findings thus far are that chromatic blurring of fringes is causing the strongest limitations on our CDI speckle removal. Chromatic amplitude corrections to the constructed reference image show improvement, but more in-depth modelling or deconvolution of blurring effects are needed. Our CDI recipe produces a factor of ∼15× improvement in the core of the PSF. We expect to push this improvement to 20 to 30× with more advanced chromatic treatment, and extend the improvement to wider separations.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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