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LSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products
Željko Ivezić, Steven M. Kahn, J. Anthony Tyson +310
(Abridged) We describe here the most ambitious survey currently planned in the optical, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). A vast array of science will be enabled by a sin…
First On-Sky High Contrast Imaging with an Apodizing Phase Plate
Matthew A. Kenworthy, Johanan L. Codona, Philip M. Hinz +3
We present the first astronomical observations obtained with an Apodizing Phase Plate (APP). The plate is designed to suppress the stellar diffraction pattern by 5 magnitudes from…
Telescope to Observe Planetary Systems (TOPS): a high throughput 1.2-m visible telescope with a small inner working angle
Olivier Guyon, James R. P. Angel, Charles Bowers +20
The Telescope to Observe Planetary Systems (TOPS) is a proposed space mission to image in the visible (0.4-0.9 micron) planetary systems of nearby stars simultaneously in 16 spectr…
Thermal Infrared Constraint to a Planetary Companion of Vega with the MMT Adaptive Optics System
Philip M. Hinz, A. N. Heinze, Suresh Sivanandam +5
Vega may have a massive companion in a wide orbit, as evidenced by structure in its cold dust debris. We have tested this hypothesis by direct imaging with adaptive optics in the M…
Adaptive Optics Nulling Interferometric Constraints on the Mid-Infrared Exozodiacal Dust Emission around Vega
W. M. Liu, P. M. Hinz, W. F. Hoffmann +7
We present the results of mid-infrared nulling interferometric observations of the main-sequence star alpha Lyr (Vega) using the 6.5 m MMT with its adaptive secondary mirror. From…
An Optical Ultra-High-Resolution Cross-dispersed Echelle Spectrograph with Adaptive Optics
Jian Ge, J. R. P. Angel, B. Jacobsen +3
A prototype cross-dispersed optical echelle spectrograph of very high resolution has been designed and built at Steward Observatory and tested at the Starfire Optical Range (SOR) 1…