•Azimuthally averaged PSFs for PALAO, assuming an
occulting mask of 3l/D, and
normal Lyot masking (left column) and aggressive masking (right column). Curves
are AO-corrected PSF (solid), AO+coronagraph PSF (dashed), and seeing-limited PSF (dotted).
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• From Makidon, et. al., “Ground-based coronagraphy with
high order adaptive optics”, SPIE 4007, (2000).