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Validating the SCALES DRP: A Performance Study of the Medium-Resolution IFS Mode
Athira Unni, Steph Sallum, Max Brodheim +11
We present a performance verification of the medium-resolution integral field spectrograph (IFS) mode of the SCALES Data Reduction Pipeline (SCALES-DRP) using data obtained during…
Pre-shipment optical characterization of the SCALES instrument
Isabel J. Kain, Reni Kupke, Daren Dillon +31
The Slicer Combined with an Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy (SCALES) instrument is a 1-5 micron imager and 2-5 micron integral field spectrograph, currently being comm…
The Photonic Lantern Nuller: from concept to laboratory and on-sky demonstrations
Yinzi Xin, Nemanja Jovanovic, Dimitri Mawet +18
This thesis work presents the conceptual design and experimental characterization of the Photonic Lantern Nuller instrument, which uses a multimode-to-single-mode demultiplexing wa…
The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems VIII: patchy forsterite and enstatite clouds in the atmosphere of VHS 1256 b, retrieval lessons learned and outlook to the future
Niall Whiteford, Jacqueline K. Faherty, Ben Burningham +123
JWST defines a new era for the data-driven approach of retrieval modelling, which has become a cornerstone tool for the statistical inference of exoplanetary and brown dwarf proper…
Demonstrating the integration of a photonic lantern with an all-fiber-based nulling interferometer
Jordan Diaz, Rebecca Jensen-Clem, Philip M. Hinz +12
High-contrast imaging of Solar System scale exoplanets and protoplanets demands advancements in instrumentation to access deeper starlight suppression at smaller angular separation…
Experimentally-determined performance limits for joint imaging and wavefront sensing with a photonic lantern
Aditya R. Sengupta, Vincent Chambouleyron, Rebecca Jensen-Clem +16
The photonic lantern (PL) is a focal-plane wavefront sensor (WFS) that can be used for second-stage control of extreme adaptive optics (AO) systems. While the number of sensed mode…
On-sky Demonstration of Subdiffraction-limited Astronomical Measurement Using a Photonic Lantern
Yoo Jung Kim, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Sébastien Vievard +18
Resolving fine details of astronomical objects provides critical insights into their underlying physical processes. This drives in part the desire to construct ever-larger telescop…
Wavefront Error Recovery and Companion Identification with the James Webb Space Telescope
Matthew De Furio, Marie Ygouf, Alexandra Greenbaum +8
The James Webb Space Telescope is orders of magnitude more sensitive than any other facility across the near to mid-infrared wavelengths. Many approved programs take advantage of i…
First Demonstration of Kernel Phase Interferometry on JWST/MIRI: Prospects for Future Planet Searches Around Post Main Sequence Stars
Chelsea Adelman, Steph Sallum, Matthew De Furio +1
Kernel phase interferometry (KPI) is a post-processing technique that treats a conventional telescope as an interferometer by accurately modeling a telescope pupil as an array of v…
SCALES-DRP : A Data Reduction Pipeline for an Upcoming Keck Thermal Infrared Spectrograph
Athira Unni, Steph Sallum, Peyton Benac +5
We present the end-to-end data reduction pipeline for SCALES (Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy), the upcoming thermal-infrared, diffraction-limited…
Increasing science yield with a twilight observing program with the SCALES instrument at Keck
Isabel J. Kain, Carlos Alvarez, John M. O'Meara +13
While astronomical twilight closes the observing window for optical astronomers, the infrared sky remains dark even through sunrise, allowing IR astronomers to observe through twil…
Laboratory testing and characterization of a hybrid fast/slow readout mode for the H2RG detectors in SCALES
Peyton Benac, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Eric Wang +13
The upcoming SCALES (Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy) instrument for W.M. Keck Observatory will enable new imaging and low-/mid-resolution coronag…
Experimental and on-sky demonstration of spectrally dispersed wavefront sensing using a photonic lantern
Jonathan Lin, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Yinzi Xin +12
Adaptive optics systems are critical in any application where highly resolved imaging or beam control must be performed through a dynamic medium. Such applications include astronom…
exoALMA XI: ALMA Observations and Hydrodynamic Models of LkCa 15: Implications for Planetary Mass Companions in the Dust Continuum Cavity
Charles H. Gardner, Andrea Isella, Hui Li +43
In the past decade, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has revealed a plethora of substructures in the disks surrounding young stars. These substructures have…
Doppler Shifted Transient Sodium Detection by KECK/HIRES
Athira Unni, Apurva V. Oza, H. Jens Hoeijmakers +12
We carried out the first high-resolution transit observations of the exoplanet WASP-49 Ab with Keck/HIRES. Upon custom wavelength calibration we achieve a Doppler RV precision of $…
Implicit Electric Field Conjugation with the Photonic Lantern Nuller
Yinzi Xin, Daniel Echeverri, Nemanja Jovanovic +12
The Photonic Lantern Nuller (PLN) is an instrument concept designed to characterize exoplanets within a single beam-width from its host star. The PLN leverages the spatial symmetry…
Spectral characterization of a 3-port photonic lantern for application to spectroastrometry
Yoo Jung Kim, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Jonathan Lin +10
Spectroastrometry, which measures wavelength-dependent shifts in the center of light, is well-suited for studying objects whose morphology changes with wavelength at very high angu…
On the Potential of Spectroastrometry with Photonic Lanterns
Yoo Jung Kim, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Jonathan Lin +5
We investigate the potential of photonic lantern (PL) fiber fed spectrometers for two-dimensional spectroastrometry. Spectroastrometry, a technique for studying small angular scale…
Spectroscopy using a visible photonic lantern at the Subaru telescope: Laboratory characterization and first on-sky demonstration on Ikiiki (α Leo) and `Aua (α Ori)
Sébastien Vievard, Manon Lallement, Sergio Leon-Saval +23
Photonic lanterns are waveguide devices enabling high throughput single mode spectroscopy and high angular resolution. We aim to present the first on-sky demonstration of a photoni…
Visible Photonic Lantern integration, characterization and on-sky testing on Subaru/SCExAO
Sébastien Vievard, Manon Lallement, Sergio Leon-Saval +23
A Photonic Lantern (PL) is a novel device that efficiently converts a multi-mode fiber into several single-mode fibers. When coupled with an extreme adaptive optics (ExAO) system a…
Searching for Protoplanets around MWC 758 and MWC 480 in Br- using Kernel Phase and SCExAO/CHARIS
Alexander Chaushev, Steph Sallum, Julien Lozi +6
Discovering new actively-accreting protoplanets is crucial to answering open questions about planet formation. However, identifying such planets at orbital distances where they are…
Laboratory demonstration of a Photonic Lantern Nuller in monochromatic and broadband light
Yinzi Xin, Daniel Echeverri, Nemanja Jovanovic +11
Photonic lantern nulling (PLN) is a method for enabling the detection and characterization of close-in exoplanets by exploiting the symmetries of the ports of a mode-selective phot…
Coherent Imaging with Photonic Lanterns
Yoo Jung Kim, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Jonathan Lin +4
Photonic Lanterns (PLs) are tapered waveguides that gradually transition from a multi-mode fiber geometry to a bundle of single-mode fibers (SMFs). They can efficiently couple mult…
The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems V: Do Self-Consistent Atmospheric Models Represent JWST Spectra? A Showcase With VHS 1256 b
Simon Petrus, Niall Whiteford, Polychronis Patapis +119
The unprecedented medium-resolution (R~1500-3500) near- and mid-infrared (1-18um) spectrum provided by JWST for the young (140+/-20Myr) low-mass (12-20MJup) L-T transition (L7) com…