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Table 1

Parameters used to apply COFFEE on SPHERE.

Light source Internal calibration source, wavelength λ = 1589 nm
SPHERE entrance pupil Unobscured circular pupil, diameter Du = 40 cm
Coronagraph Apodized Lyot Coronagraph (ALC), focal plane mask angular diameter d = 4.52λ/D
Lyot stop pupil Obscured circular pupil (see Fig. 2), diameter Dd = 0.96Du
IRDIS image size 200 × 200 pixels
Sampling 2.75 pixels per λ/D
Detector noise σdet = 1 e
Exposure time 0.6 s per acquisition. Each image is averaged over 100 acquisitions

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