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astro-ph.IM2022★ 386 cited

NIRCam Performance on JWST In Flight

Marcia J. Rieke, Douglas M. Kelly, Karl Misselt +7

The Near Infrared Camera for the James Webb Space Telescope is delivering the imagery that astronomers have hoped for ever since JWST was proposed back in the 1990s. In the Commiss…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 6 cited

Topological Designs for Scalar Vortex Coronagraphs

Niyati Desai, Jorge Llop-Sayson, Arielle Bertrou-Cantou +4

The detection and characterization of Earth-like exoplanets around Sun-like stars for future flagship missions requires coronagraphs to achieve contrasts on the order of 1e-10 at c…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 4 cited

Micro-arcsecond Astrometry Technology: Detector and Field Distortion Calibration

Michael Shao, Chengxing Zhai, Bijan Nemati +3

Microarcsecond (uas) astrometry is an indispensable technique to detect earth-like exoplanets, fully characterize exoplanetary orbits, and measure their masses --information critic…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 22 cited

JWST NIRCam Defocused Imaging: Photometric Stability Performance and How it Can Sense Mirror Tilts

Everett Schlawin, Thomas Beatty, Brian Brooks +25

We use JWST NIRCam short wavelength photometry to capture a transit lightcurve of the exoplanet HAT-P-14 b to assess performance as part of instrument commissioning. The short wave…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 1 cited

Planetary Exploration Horizon 2061 Report, Chapter 4: From planetary exploration goals to technology requirements

Jérémie Lasue, Pierre Bousquet, Michel Blanc +19

This chapter reviews for each province and destination of the Solar System the representative space missions that will have to be designed and implemented by 2061 to address the si…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 4 cited

Design of The Kinetic Inductance Detector Based Focal Plane Assembly for The Terahertz Intensity Mapper

L. -J. Liu, R. M. J. Janssen, C. M. Bradford +16

We report on the kinetic inductance detector (KID) array focal plane assembly design for the Terahertz Intensity Mapper (TIM). Each of the 2 arrays consists of 4 wafer-sized dies (…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 2 cited

Design and testing of Kinetic Inductance Detector package for the Terahertz Intensity Mapper

L. -J. Liu, R. M. J Janssen, C. M. Bradford +16

The Terahertz Intensity Mapper (TIM) is designed to probe the star formation history in dust-obscured star-forming galaxies around the peak of cosmic star formation. This will be d…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 4 cited

Observing inside the coronagraphic regime with optimized single-mode nulling interferometry

E. Serabyn, G. Ruane, D. Echeverri

The number of terrestrial exoplanets accessible to high-contrast coronagraphic imaging with large telescopes is limited by the smallest angular offset from bright stars at which co…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 6 cited

Weak lensing in the blue: a counter-intuitive strategy for stratospheric observations

Mohamed M. Shaaban, Ajay S. Gill, Jacqueline McCleary +24

The statistical power of weak lensing measurements is principally driven by the number of high redshift galaxies whose shapes are resolved. Conventional wisdom and physical intuiti…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 3 cited

Real-time exposure control and instrument operation with the NEID spectrograph GUI

Arvind F. Gupta, Chad F. Bender, Joe P. Ninan +14

The NEID spectrograph on the WIYN 3.5-m telescope at Kitt Peak has completed its first full year of science operations and is reliably delivering sub-m/s precision radial velocity…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 7 cited

Adaptive optics performance of a simulated coronagraph instrument on a large, segmented space telescope in steady state

Axel Potier, Garreth Ruane, Christopher C. Stark +9

Directly imaging Earth-like exoplanets (``exoEarths'') with a coronagraph instrument on a space telescope requires a stable wavefront with optical path differences limited to tens…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 2 cited

An all-photonic, dynamic device for flattening the spectrum of a laser frequency comb for precise calibration of radial velocity measurements

Nemanja Jovanovic, Pradip Gatkine, Boqiang Shen +9

Laser frequency combs are fast becoming critical to reaching the highest radial velocity precisions. One shortcoming is the highly variable brightness of the comb lines across the…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 22 cited

Efficient detection and characterization of exoplanets within the diffraction limit: nulling with a mode-selective photonic lantern

Yinzi Xin, Nemanja Jovanovic, Garreth Ruane +9

Coronagraphs allow for faint off-axis exoplanets to be observed, but are limited to angular separations greater than a few beam widths. Accessing closer-in separations would greatl…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 27 cited

A Joint Roman Space Telescope and Rubin Observatory Synthetic Wide-Field Imaging Survey

M. A. Troxel, C. Lin, A. Park +22

We present and validate 20 deg of overlapping synthetic imaging surveys representing the full depth of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope High-Latitude Imaging Survey (HLIS)…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 6 cited

Probing Photon Statistics in Adaptive Optics Images with SCExAO/MEC

Sarah Steiger, Timothy D. Brandt, Olivier Guyon +11

We present an experimental study of photon statistics for high-contrast imaging with the Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector (MKID) Exoplanet Camera (MEC) located behind the Suba…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 3 cited

How to Deploy a 10-km Interferometric Radio Telescope on the Moon with Just Four Tethered Robots

Patrick McGarey, Issa A. Nesnas, Adarsh Rajguru +10

The Far-side Array for Radio Science Investigations of the Dark ages and Exoplanets (FARSIDE) is a proposed mission concept to the lunar far side that seeks to deploy and operate a…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 22 cited

Euclid preparation: XXII. Selection of Quiescent Galaxies from Mock Photometry using Machine Learning

Euclid Collaboration, A. Humphrey, L. Bisigello +206

The Euclid Space Telescope will provide deep imaging at optical and near-infrared wavelengths, along with slitless near-infrared spectroscopy, across ~15,000 sq deg of the sky. Euc…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 6 cited

Evolving morphology of resolved stellar Einstein rings

Slava G. Turyshev, Viktor T. Toth

We consider strong gravitational lensing by nearby stars. Using our wave-optical treatment of lensing phenomena, we study Einstein rings that may form around nearby stellar lenses.…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 18 cited

Increasing the raw contrast of VLT/SPHERE with the dark-hole technique. II. On-sky wavefront correction and coherent differential imaging

Axel Potier, Johan Mazoyer, Zahed Wahhaj +4

Context. Direct imaging of exoplanets takes advantage of state-of-the-art adaptive optics (AO) systems, coronagraphy, and post-processing techniques. Coronagraphs attenuate starlig…

astro-ph.IM2022

SPHERExLabTools (SLT): A Python Data Acquisition System for SPHEREx Characterization and Calibration

Sam Condon, Marco Viero, James Bock +7

Selected as the next NASA Medium Class Explorer mission, SPHEREx, the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer is planned for la…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 13 cited

The Mars Microphone onboard SuperCam

D. Mimoun, A. Cadu, N. Murdoch +11

The Mars Microphone is one of the five measurement techniques of SuperCam, an improved version of the ChemCam instrument that has been functioning aboard the Curiosity rover for se…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 19 cited

Broadband Vector Vortex Coronagraph Testing at NASA's High Contrast Imaging Testbed Facility

Garreth Ruane, A J Eldorado Riggs, Eugene Serabyn +6

The unparalleled theoretical performance of an ideal vector vortex coronagraph makes it one of the most promising technologies for directly imaging exoplanets with a future, off-ax…

astro-ph.IM2022

Theia : science cases and mission profiles for high precision astrometry in the future

Fabien Malbet, Lucas Labadie, Alessandro Sozzetti +11

High-precision astrometry well beyond the capacities of Gaia will provide a unique way to achieve astrophysical breakthroughs, in particular on the nature of dark matter, and a com…

astro-ph.IM2022

Science Cases for the Keck Wide-Field Imager

J. Cooke, C. Angus, K. Auchettl +22

The Keck Wide-Field Imager (KWFI) is a proposed 1-degree diameter field of view UV-sensitive optical camera for Keck prime focus. KWFI will be the most powerful optical wide-field…