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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…
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…
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 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…
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…
Achromatic design of a photonic tricoupler and phase shifter for broadband nulling interferometry
Teresa Klinner-Teo, Marc-Antoine Martinod, Peter Tuthill +3
Nulling interferometry is one of the most promising technologies for imaging exoplanets within stellar habitable zones. The use of photonics for carrying out nulling interferometry…
Design of the new CHARA instrument SILMARIL: pushing the sensitivity of a 3-beam combiner in the H- and K-bands
Cyprien Lanthermann, Theo ten Brummelaar, Peter Tuthill +5
Optical interferometry is a powerful technique to achieve high angular resolution. However, its main issue is its lack of sensitivity, compared to other observation techniques. Eff…
L-band nulling interferometry at the VLTI with Asgard/Hi-5: status and plans
Denis Defrère, Azzurra Bigioli, Colin Dandumont +34
Hi-5 is the L'-band (3.5-4.0 m) high-contrast imager of Asgard, an instrument suite in preparation for the visitor focus of the VLTI. The system is optimized for high-contrast a…
High spectral-resolution interferometry down to 1 micron with Asgard/BIFROST at VLTI: Science drivers and project overview
Stefan Kraus, Daniel Mortimer, Sorabh Chhabra +10
We present science cases and instrument design considerations for the BIFROST instrument that will open the short-wavelength (Y/J/H-band), high spectral dispersion (up to R=25,000)…