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astro-ph.IM2019★ 28 cited

2 Fast 2 Fiducial: Gaussian processes for the interpolation and marginalization of waveform error in extreme-mass-ratio-inspiral parameter estimation

Alvin J. K. Chua, Natalia Korsakova, Christopher J. Moore +2

A number of open problems hinder our present ability to extract scientific information from data that will be gathered by the near-future gravitational-wave mission LISA. Many of t…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 34 cited

A Synthetic Roman Space Telescope High-Latitude Imaging Survey: Simulation Suite and the Impact of Wavefront Errors on Weak Gravitational Lensing

M. A. Troxel, H. Long, C. M. Hirata +7

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) mission is expected to launch in the mid-2020s. Its weak lensing program is designed to enable unprecedented systematics control in ph…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 13 cited

Robust diffraction-limited NIR-to-NUV wide-field imaging from stratospheric balloon-borne platforms -- SuperBIT science telescope commissioning flight & performance

L. Javier Romualdez, Steven J. Benton, Anthony M. Brown +26

At a fraction the total cost of an equivalent orbital mission, scientific balloon-borne platforms, operating above 99.7% of the Earth's atmosphere, offer attractive, competitive, a…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 7 cited

Flat low-loss silicon gradient index lens for millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths

Fabien Defrance, Cecile Jung-Kubiak, Sofia Rahiminejad +6

We present the design, simulation, and planned fabrication process of a flat high resistivity silicon gradient index (GRIN) lens for millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths with v…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 25 cited

Design and Performance of Hafnium Optical and Near-IR Kinetic Inductance Detectors

Nicholas Zobrist, Grégoire Coiffard, Bruce Bumble +9

We report on the design and performance of Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) sensitive to single photons in the optical to near-infrared range using hafnium as the sen…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 12 cited

Autonomous Detection of Particles and Tracks in Optical Images

Andrew J. Liounis, Jeffrey L. Small, Jason C. Swenson +12

During its initial orbital phase in early 2019, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) asteroid sample return mi…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 98 cited

A pulsar-based timescale from the International Pulsar Timing Array

G. Hobbs, L. Guo, R. N. Caballero +56

We have constructed a new timescale, TT(IPTA16), based on observations of radio pulsars presented in the first data release from the International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA). We us…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 78 cited

Mitigating Internal Instrument Coupling II: A Method Demonstration with the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array

Nicholas S. Kern, Aaron R. Parsons, Joshua S. Dillon +63

We present a study of internal reflection and cross coupling systematics in Phase I of the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA). In a companion paper, we outlined the mathem…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 19 cited

Searching for Planets Orbiting Alpha Centauri A with the James Webb Space Telescope

Charles Beichman, Marie Ygouf, Jorge Llop Sayson +18

Alpha Centauri A is the closest solar-type star to the Sun and offers an excellent opportunity to detect the thermal emission of a mature planet heated by its host star. The MIRI c…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 21 cited

Revised Astrometric Calibration of the Gemini Planet Imager

Robert J. De Rosa, Meiji M. Nguyen, Jeffrey Chilcote +49

We present a revision to the astrometric calibration of the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI), an instrument designed to achieve the high contrast at small angular separations necessary t…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 1 cited

Astro2020 APC White Paper: SmallSats for Astrophysics

David R. Ardila, Anthony Freeman, Todd Gaier +3

The commercial SmallSat industry is booming and has developed numerous low-cost, capable satellite buses. SmallSats can be used as vehicles for technology development or to host sc…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 12 cited

Minimization of non common path aberrations at the Palomar telescope using a self-coherent camera

Raphael Galicher, Pierre Baudoz, Jacques-Robert Delorme +5

The two main advantages of exoplanet imaging are the discovery of objects in the outer part of stellar systems -- constraining models of planet formation --, and its ability to spe…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 12 cited

The local dark sector. Probing gravitation's low-acceleration frontier and dark matter in the Solar System neighborhood

Joel Bergé, Laura Baudis, Philippe Brax +18

We speculate on the development and availability of new innovative propulsion techniques in the 2040s, that will allow us to fly a spacecraft outside the Solar System (at 150 AU an…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 15 cited

The vortex fiber nulling mode of the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC)

Daniel Echeverri, Garreth Ruane, Nemanja Jovanovic +8

The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC) is an upgrade to the Keck II adaptive optics system that includes an active fiber injection unit (FIU) for efficiently routing light…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 19 cited

Scalar vortex coronagraph mask design and predicted performance

Garreth Ruane, Dimitri Mawet, A J Eldorado Riggs +1

Vortex coronagraphs are an attractive solution for imaging exoplanets with future space telescopes due to their relatively high throughput, large spectral bandwidth, and low sensit…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 8 cited

Superconducting On-chip Fourier Transform Spectrometer

R. Basu Thakur, N. Klimovich, P. K . Day +4

Kinetic inductance in thin film superconductors has been used as the basis for low-temperature, low-noise photon detectors. In particular thin films such as NbTiN, TiN, NbN, the ki…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 21 cited

Photometric imaging with the solar gravitational lens

Slava G. Turyshev, Viktor T. Toth

We discuss the optical properties of the solar gravitational lens (SGL). We estimate the power of the EM field received by an imaging telescope. Studying the behavior of the EM fie…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 22 cited

Microwave multiplexing on the Keck Array

Ari Cukierman, Zeeshan Ahmed, Shawn Henderson +82

We describe an on-sky demonstration of a microwave-multiplexing readout system in one of the receivers of the Keck Array, a polarimetry experiment observing the cosmic microwave ba…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 11 cited

Vortex fiber nulling for exoplanet observations: conceptual design, theoretical performance, and initial scientific yield predictions

Garreth Ruane, Daniel Echeverri, Nemanja Jovanovic +5

Vortex fiber nulling (VFN) is a method that may enable the detection and characterization of exoplanets at small angular separations (0.5-2 ) with ground- and space-based tele…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 46 cited

Precise Radial Velocities of Cool Low Mass Stars With iSHELL

Bryson Cale, Peter Plavchan, Danny LeBrun +11

The coolest dwarf stars are intrinsically faint at visible wavelengths and exhibit rotationally modulated stellar activity from spots and plages. It is advantageous to observe thes…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 34 cited

Nulling at short wavelengths: theoretical performance constraints and a demonstration of faint companion detection inside the diffraction limit with a rotating-baseline interferometer

Eugene Serabyn, Bertrand Mennesson, Stefan Martin +2

The Palomar Fiber Nuller (PFN) is a rotating-baseline nulling interferometer that enables high-accuracy near-infrared (NIR) nulling observations with full azimuth coverage. To achi…

astro-ph.IM2019

Linking the Solar System and Extrasolar Planetary Systems with Radar Astronomy: Infrastructure for "Ground Truth" Comparison

Joseph Lazio, Amber Bonsall, Marina Brozovic +13

Planetary radars have obtained unique science measurements about solar system bodies and they have provided orbit determinations allowing spacecraft to be navigated throughout the…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 4 cited

Enabling the next generation of scientific discoveries by embracing photonic technologies

Nemanja Jovanovic, Charles Beichman, Cullen Blake +46

The fields of Astronomy and Astrophysics are technology limited, where the advent and application of new technologies to astronomy usher in a flood of discoveries altering our unde…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 132 cited

The CatWISE Preliminary Catalog: Motions from and Data

Peter R. M. Eisenhardt, Federico Marocco, John W. Fowler +19

CatWISE is a program to catalog sources selected from combined and all-sky survey data at 3.4 and 4.6 m (W1 and W2). The CatWISE Preliminary Catalog…