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astro-ph.IM2023★ 3 cited

Cross-Slot Metal-Mesh Bandpass Filters for Far-Infrared Astronomy

Joanna Perido, Kevin Denis, Jason Glenn +7

The far-infrared (IR) region is rich with information needed to characterize interstellar dust and to investigate the cold outer planets of the solar system and their icy moons. Th…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 3 cited

Multi-messenger astronomy in the new physics modality with GPS constellation

Arko P. Sen, Kalia Pfeffer, Paul Ries +2

We explore a novel, exotic physics, modality in multi-messenger astronomy. We are interested in exotic fields emitted by the mergers and their direct detection with a network of at…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 10 cited

Data downloaded via parachute from a NASA super-pressure balloon

Ellen L. Sirks, Richard Massey, Ajay S. Gill +40

In April to May 2023, the superBIT telescope was lifted to the Earth's stratosphere by a helium-filled super-pressure balloon, to acquire astronomical imaging from above (99.5% of)…

astro-ph.IM2023

Staring at the Sun with the Keck Planet Finder: An Autonomous Solar Calibrator for High Signal-to-Noise Sun-as-a-Star Spectra

Ryan A. Rubenzahl, Samuel Halverson, Josh Walawender +11

Extreme precision radial velocity (EPRV) measurements contend with internal noise (instrumental systematics) and external noise (intrinsic stellar variability) on the road to 10 cm…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 50 cited

2023 Astrophotonics Roadmap: pathways to realizing multi-functional integrated astrophotonic instruments

Nemanja Jovanovic, Pradip Gatkine, Narsireddy Anugu +77

Photonics offer numerous functionalities that can be used to realize astrophotonic instruments. The most spectacular example to date is the ESO Gravity instrument at the Very Large…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 11 cited

PRIMA General Observer Science Book

A. Moullet, T. Kataria, D. Lis +6

PRIMA (The PRobe for-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics) is a concept for a far-infrared (IR) observatory. PRIMA features a cryogenically cooled 1.8 m diameter telescope and is desi…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 7 cited

Results and Limits of Time Division Multiplexing for the BICEP Array High Frequency Receivers

S. Fatigoni, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +84

Time-Division Multiplexing is the readout architecture of choice for many ground and space experiments, as it is a very mature technology with proven outstanding low-frequency nois…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 2 cited

Spot-Based Measurement of the Brighter-Fatter Effect on a Roman Space Telescope H4RG Detector and Comparison with Flat-Field Data

Andrés A. Plazas Malagón, Charles Shapiro, Ami Choi +1

We present the measurement and characterization of the brighter-fatter effect (BFE) on a NASA Roman Space Telescope development Teledyne H4RG-10 near-infrared detector using labora…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 23 cited

End-to-end numerical modeling of the Roman Space Telescope coronagraph

John E. Krist, John B. Steeves, Brandon D. Dube +14

The Roman Space Telescope will have the first advanced coronagraph in space, with deformable mirrors for wavefront control, low-order wavefront sensing and maintenance, and a photo…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 8 cited

The Analytical Performance Model and Error Budget for the Roman Coronagraph Instrument

Bijan Nemati, John Krist, Ilya Poberezhskiy +1

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman), under development by NASA, will investigate possible causes for the phenomenon of dark energy and detect and characterize extra-solar…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 12 cited

Vortex Fiber Nulling for Exoplanet Observations: Implementation and First Light

Daniel Echeverri, Jerry Xuan, Nemanja Jovanovic +31

Vortex fiber nulling (VFN) is a single-aperture interferometric technique for detecting and characterizing exoplanets separated from their host star by less than a diffracted beam…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 4 cited

Benefits of adding radial phase dimples on scalar coronagraph phase masks

Niyati Desai, Dimitri Mawet, Eugene Serabyn +4

Current scalar coronagraph focal plane mask designs are performance-limited by chromaticity. We investigate the effects of adding central Roddier and dual zone phase dimples to sca…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

Comparative laboratory study of electric field conjugation algorithms

Niyati Desai, Axel Potier, Susan F. Redmond +5

Future space telescope coronagraph instruments hinge on the integration of high-performance masks and precise wavefront sensing and control techniques to create dark holes essentia…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 43 cited

JWST MIRI flight performance: Detector Effects and Data Reduction Algorithms

Jane Morrison, Daniel Dicken, Ioannis Argyriou +21

The detectors in the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are arsenic-21 doped silicon impurity band conduction (Si:As IBC) devices and are direc…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 3 cited

Dual Purpose Lyot Coronagraph Masks for Simultaneous High-Contrast Imaging and High-Resolution Wavefront Sensing

Garreth Ruane, J. Kent Wallace, A J Eldorado Riggs +8

Directly imaging Earth-sized exoplanets with a visible-light coronagraph instrument on a space telescope will require a system that can achieve raw contrast and main…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 18 cited

Stable fiber-illumination for extremely precise radial velocities with NEID

Shubham Kanodia, Andrea S. J. Lin, Emily Lubar +24

NEID is a high-resolution red-optical precision radial velocity (RV) spectrograph recently commissioned at the WIYN 3.5 m telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, Arizona, USA.…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 7 cited

On-sky speckle nulling through a single-mode fiber with the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer

Yinzi Xin, Jerry W. Xuan, Dimitri Mawet +14

The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC) is an instrument at the Keck II telescope that enables high-resolution spectroscopy of directly imaged exoplanets and substellar com…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 3 cited

PCAT-DE: Reconstructing point-like and diffuse signals in astronomical images using spatial and spectral information

Richard M. Feder, Victoria Butler, Tansu Daylan +5

Observational data from astronomical imaging surveys contain information about a variety of source populations and environments, and its complexity will increase substantially as t…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

Infrastructure Strategy to Enable Optical Communications for Next-Generation Heliophysics Missions

Marta Shelton, Hongbo Li, Daniel Motto +9

To expand frontiers and achieve measurable progress, instruments such as hyperspectral imagers are increased in resolution, field of view, and spectral resolution and range, leadin…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 2 cited

The K-band (24 GHz) Celestial Reference Frame determined from Very Long Baseline Interferometry sessions conducted over the past 20 years

Hana Krasna, David Gordon, Aletha de Witt +1

The third realization of the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF3) was adopted in August 2018 and includes positions of extragalactic objects at three frequencies: 8.4 GH…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 74 cited

Reference Array and Design Consideration for the next-generation Event Horizon Telescope

Sheperd S. Doeleman, John Barrett, Lindy Blackburn +26

We describe the process to design, architect, and implement a transformative enhancement of the Event Horizon Telescope (ngEHT). This program - the next-generation Event Horizon Te…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 4 cited

On-sky demonstration at Palomar Observatory of the near-IR, high-resolution VIPA spectrometer

Alexis Carlotti, Alexis Bidot, David Mouillet +16

A near-IR high-resolution, R=80000 spectrometer has been developed at IPAG to directly characterize the atmosphere of exoplanets using adaptive optics (AO) assisted telescopes, and…

astro-ph.IM2023

Improving VLT/SPHERE without additional hardware: Comparing quasi-static correction strategies

Axel Potier, Zahed Wahhaj, Raphael Galicher +4

Direct imaging is the primary technique currently used to detect young and warm exoplanets and understand their formation scenarios. The extreme flux ratio between an exoplanet and…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 2 cited

Random Vibration Testing of Microelectromechanical Deformable Mirrors for Space-based High-Contrast Imaging

Axel Potier, Camilo Mejia Prada, Garreth Ruane +11

Space-based stellar coronagraph instruments aim to directly image exoplanets that are a fraction of an arcsecond separation and ten billion times fainter than their host star. To a…