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Pushing high angular resolution and high contrast observations on the VLTI from Y to L band with the Asgard instrumental suite: integration status and plans
Marc-Antoine Martinod, Michael J. Ireland, Denis Defrère +39
ESO's VLTI has a history of record-breaking discoveries in astrophysics using high-angular resolution instrumentation. Its latest visitor instrument, the Asgard instrumental suite,…
Silencing the stellar glare with kernel-nulling and active phase control on photonic chips
Marc-Antoine Martinod, Vincent Foriel, Nick Cvetojevic +4
Characterizing exoplanets and finding biosignatures are among the hottest topics in astronomy. This quest is challenged by the brightness contrast between the faint planet and the…
Asgard/NOTT: Status of laboratory nulling performance
T. Mattheussen, R. Laugier, D. Defrère +26
Nulling interferometry enables the direct detection of faint companions and circumstellar structures at angular separations unresolvable by classical, diffraction-limited imagers,…
Performance Analysis of the Asgard/NOTT Nulling Interferometer: Optimizing Observing Modes for High-contrast Detection
J. P. Scott, S. Ertel, T. A. Stuber +21
We evaluate the performance of three beam-combination schemes, single-Bracewell, asymmetric dual-Bracewell, and symmetric dual-Bracewell, for the forthcoming Asgard/NOTT nulling in…
Overcoming the low signal-to-noise problem for hybrid mode-selective photonic lantern-based wavefront correction using machine learning
Nathan K Long, Barnaby Norris, Daniel S Dahl +10
Hybrid mode-selective photonic lanterns transform an input complex point-spread function into several single-mode outputs, where a selected core feeds the fundamental mode to a pho…
Characterization and on-sky testing of photonic, AWG-based astronomical spectrographs
Jeronimo Calderon-Gomez, Frantz Martinache, Nick Cvetojevic +14
Astrophotonics is a field that intends to meet the needs of next-generation instruments at a small footprint, low cost, and high stability, compared to bulk-optics-based alternativ…
Asgard/NOTT: Cryogenic characterization of the mid-infrared chip
G. Garreau, D. Defrère, R. Laugier +25
NOTT is part of the new visitor instrument suite Asgard for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), and the first long-baseline nulling interferometer that will be operatio…
Seidr update: photonic 'black magic' for high-contrast interferometry using kernel-nulling and photonic lanterns
Nathan K Long, Daniel S Dahl, Christopher H Betters +13
Seidr is a new interferometric beam combiner within the Asgard Suite, utilizing infrastructure common to the BIFROST instrument at the Very Large Telescope Interferometer. Seidr co…
Asgard/NOTT: L-band nulling interferometry at the VLTI -- III. The mid-infrared integrated optics beam combiner for NOTT
A. Sanny, L. Labadie, S. Gross +6
The NOTT visitor instrument at the VLTI will characterize hot exozodiacal dust and young Jupiter-like planets at the water snowline via L' band nulling interferometry. The beam com…
A scalable and accurate framework for self-calibrating null depth retrieval using neural posterior estimation
Baoyi Zeng, Marc-Antoine Martinod, Denis Defrère
Accurate null depth retrieval is critical in nulling interferometry. However, achieving accurate null depth calibration is challenging due to various noise sources, instrumental im…
GRIP: a generic data reduction package for nulling interferometry
Marc-Antoine Martinod, Denis Defrere, Romain Laugier +4
Nulling interferometry is a powerful observing technique to study exoplanets and circumstellar dust at separations too small for direct imaging with single-dish telescopes. With re…
The HOSTS Survey: Suspected variable dust emission and constraints on companions around θ Boo
G. Garreau, D. Defrère, S. Ertel +23
During the HOSTS survey by the LBTI, an excess emission from the main sequence star θ Boo (F7V spectral type, 14.5pc distance) was observed. This excess indicates the presence of e…
The GLINT nulling interferometer: improving nulls for high-contrast imaging
Eckhart Spalding, Elizabeth Arcadi, Glen Douglass +13
GLINT is a nulling interferometer downstream of the SCExAO extreme-adaptive-optics system at the Subaru Telescope (Hawaii, USA), and is a pathfinder instrument for high-contrast im…
Asgard/NOTT: water vapor and CO atmospheric dispersion compensation system
Romain Laugier, Denis Defrère, Michael Ireland +8
To leverage the angular resolution of interferometry at high contrast, one must employ specialized beam-combiners called interferometric nullers. Nullers discard part of the astrop…
Generic data reduction for nulling interferometry package: the grip of a single data reduction package on all the nulling interferometers
Marc-Antoine Martinod, Denis Defrère, Romain Laugier +5
Nulling interferometry is a powerful observing technique to reach exoplanets and circumstellar dust at separations too small for direct imaging with single-dish telescopes and too…
Asgard/NOTT: First lab assembly and experimental results
G. Garreau, A. Bigioli, R. Laugier +17
Asgard/NOTT is an ERC-funded project hosted at KU Leuven and is part of a new visitor instrumental suite, called Asgard, under preparation for the Very Large Telescope Interferomet…
Pushing high angular resolution and high contrast observations on the VLTI from Y to L band with the Asgard instrumental suite: integration status and plans
Marc-Antoine Martinod, Denis Defrère, Michael J. Ireland +35
ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer has a history of record-breaking discoveries in astrophysics and significant advances in instrumentation. The next leap forward is its new…
L-band nulling interferometry at the VLTI with Asgard/NOTT: status and plans
Denis Defrère, Romain Laugier, Marc-Antoine Martinod +43
NOTT (formerly Hi-5) is the L'-band (3.5-4.0~microns) nulling interferometer of Asgard, an instrument suite in preparation for the VLTI visitor focus. The primary scientific object…
CHARA/Silmaril Instrument Software and Data Reduction Pipeline: Characterization of the Instrument in the Lab and On-Sky
Narsireddy Anugu, Theo A. ten brummelaar, Cyprien Lanthermann +9
The newly installed Silmaril beam combiner at the CHARA array is designed to observe previously inaccessible faint targets, including Active Galactic Nuclei and T-Tauri Young Stell…
Observing the Galactic Underworld: Predicting photometry and astrometry from compact remnant microlensing events
David Sweeney, Peter Tuthill, Alberto Krone-Martins +3
Isolated black holes (BHs) and neutron stars (NSs) are largely undetectable across the electromagnetic spectrum. For this reason, our only real prospect of observing these isolated…
Asgard/NOTT: L-band nulling interferometry at the VLTI. II. Warm optical design and injection system
Germain Garreau, Azzurra Bigioli, Romain Laugier +17
Asgard/NOTT (previously Hi-5) is a European Research Council (ERC)-funded project hosted at KU Leuven and a new visitor instrument for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI…
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…
High-angular resolution and high-contrast VLTI observations from Y to L band with the Asgard instrumental suite
Marc-Antoine Martinod, Denis Defrère, Michael Ireland +17
The Very Large Telescope Interferometer is one of the most proficient observatories in the world for high angular resolution. Since its first observations, it has hosted several in…
Asgard/NOTT: L-band nulling interferometry at the VLTI I. Simulating the expected high-contrast performance
Romain Laugier, Denis Defrère, Benjamin Courtney-Barrer +13
Context: NOTT (formerly Hi-5) is a new high-contrast L' band (3.5-4.0 \textmu m) beam combiner for the VLTI with the ambitious goal to be sensitive to young giant exoplanets down t…