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The Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program: calibration strategy for the Mueller matrix using on-sky sources
Toshiyuki Mizuki, Justin Hom, Bertrand Mennesson +14
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument will provide space-based polarimetric observations of circumstellar disks and exoplanetary systems. Accurate reconstruc…
The Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program: Observation planning and data reduction for polarimetric mode
Ramya M Anche, Toshiyuki Mizuki, Justin Hom +25
Reflected-light polarimetry of exoplanets constrains and resolves degeneracies in atmospheric properties, while polarized light observations of debris disks enable the characteriza…
SCExAO/CHARIS and Gaia Direct Imaging and Astrometric Discovery of a Superjovian Planet 3--4 lambda/D from the Accelerating Star HIP 54515
Thayne Currie, Yiting Li, Mona El Morsy +28
We present the discovery of a superjovian planet around the young A5 star HIP 54515, detected using precision astrometry from the Hipparcos Gaia Catalogue of Accelerations and high…
OASIS Survey Direct Imaging and Astrometric Discovery of HIP 71618 B: A Substellar Companion Suitable for the Roman Coronagraph Technology Demonstration
Mona El Morsy, Thayne Currie, Brianna Lacy +27
We present the OASIS survey program discovery of a substellar companion orbiting the young A1V star HIP 71618, detected using precision astrometry from Gaia and Hipparcos and high-…
Multi-band Spectral and Astrometric Characterization of the HIP 99770 b Planet with SCExAO/CHARIS and Gaia
Danielle Bovie, Thayne Currie, Mona El Morsy +12
We present and analyze follow-up, higher resolution ( 70) and band integral field spectroscopy of the superjovian exoplanet HIP 99770 b with SCExAO/CHARIS. Our ne…
Direct Imaging Explorations for Companions from the Subaru/IRD Strategic Program II; Discovery of a Brown-dwarf Companion around a Nearby mid-M~dwarf LSPM~J1446+4633
Taichi Uyama, Masayuki Kuzuhara, Charles Beichman +35
We report the discovery of a new directly-imaged brown dwarf companion with Keck/NIRC2+pyWFS around a nearby mid-type M~dwarf LSPM~J1446+4633 (hereafter J1446). The -band contr…
VLT/MUSE Detection of the AB Aurigae b Protoplanet with Spectroscopy
Thayne Currie, Jun Hashimoto, Yuhiko Aoyama +6
We analyze high-contrast, medium-spectral-resolution observations of the star AB Aurigae using the Very Large Telescope's Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE). In m…
Unveiling the Atmosphere of HR 7672 B from the Near-Infrared High-Resolution Spectrum Using REACH/Subaru
Yui Kasagi, Yui Kawashima, Hajime Kawahara +12
Characterizing the atmospheres of exoplanets and brown dwarfs is crucial for understanding their atmospheric physics and chemistry, searching for biosignatures, and investigating t…
Elemental abundances of 44 very metal-poor stars determined from Subaru/IRD near-infrared spectra
Wako Aoki, Timothy C. Beers, Satoshi Honda +12
Abundances of five elements, Na, Mg, Al, Si, and Sr, are investigated for 44 very metal-poor stars (-4.0 < [Fe/H] < -1.5) in the Galactic halo system based on an Local Thermodinami…
SCExAO/CHARIS Near-Infrared Scattered-Light Imaging and Integral Field Spectropolarimetry of the AB Aurigae Protoplanetary System
Erica Dykes, Thayne Currie, Kellen Lawson +21
We analyze near-infrared integral field spectropolarimetry of the AB Aurigae protoplanetary disk and protoplanet (AB Aur b), obtained with SCExAO/CHARIS in 22 wavelength channels c…
Design, scientific goals, and performance of the SCExAO survey for planets around accelerating stars
Mona El Morsy, Thayne Currie, Masayuki Kuzuhara +25
We describe the motivation, design, and early results for our 42-night, 125 star Subaru/SCExAO direct imaging survey for planets around accelerating stars. Unlike prior large surve…
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…
Dynamical and Atmospheric Characterization of the Substellar Companion HD 33632 Ab from Direct Imaging, Astrometry, and Radial-Velocity Data
Mona El Morsy, Thayne Currie, Danielle Bovie +17
We present follow-up SCExAO/CHARIS and -band (R 70) high-contrast integral field spectroscopy and Keck/NIRC2 photometry of directly-imaged brown dwarf companion HD 33…
Direct-imaging Discovery of a Substellar Companion Orbiting the Accelerating Variable Star, HIP 39017
Taylor L. Tobin, Thayne Currie, Yiting Li +23
We present the direct-imaging discovery of a substellar companion (a massive planet or low-mass brown dwarf) to the young, Doradus-type variable star, HIP 39017 (HD 65526). The…
Testing magnetospheric accretion as an H emission mechanism of embedded giant planets: The case study for the disk exhibiting meridional flow around HD 163296
Yasuhiro Hasegawa, Taichi Uyama, Jun Hashimoto +7
Recent high-sensitivity observations reveal that accreting giant planets embedded in their parental circumstellar disks can emit H at their final formation stages. While the ori…
The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems III: Aperture Masking Interferometric Observations of the star HIP 65426 at 3.8 um
Shrishmoy Ray, Steph Sallum, Sasha Hinkley +121
We present aperture masking interferometry (AMI) observations of the star HIP 65426 at as a part of the JWST Direct Imaging Early Release Science (ERS) program obtai…
High Contrast and High Angular Imaging at Subaru Telescope
Olivier Guyon, Kyohoon Ahn, Masayuki Akiyama +10
Adaptive Optics projects at Subaru Telescope span a wide field of capabilities ranging from ground-layer adaptive optics (GLAO) providing partial correction over a 20 arcmin FOV to…
Multiband imaging of the HD 36546 debris disk: a refined view from SCExAO/CHARIS
Kellen Lawson, Thayne Currie, John P. Wisniewski +21
We present the first multi-wavelength (near-infrared; ) imaging of HD 36546's debris disk, using the Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) system co…
TOI-2285b: A 1.7 Earth-radius Planet Near the Habitable Zone around a Nearby M Dwarf
Akihiko Fukui, Tadahiro Kimura, Teruyuki Hirano +60
We report the discovery of TOI-2285b, a sub-Neptune-sized planet transiting a nearby (42 pc) M dwarf with a period of 27.3 days. We identified the transit signal from the Transitin…
Full characterization of the instrumental polarization effects of the spectropolarimetric mode of SCExAO-CHARIS
G. J. Joost `t Hart, Rob G. van Holstein, Steven P. Bos +19
SCExAO at the Subaru telescope is a visible and near-infrared high-contrast imaging instrument employing extreme adaptive optics and coronagraphy. The instrument feeds the near-inf…
SCExAO/MEC and CHARIS Discovery of a Low Mass, 6 AU-Separation Companion to HIP 109427 using Stochastic Speckle Discrimination and High-Contrast Spectroscopy
Sarah Steiger, Thayne Currie, Timothy D. Brandt +28
We report the direct imaging discovery of a low-mass companion to the nearby accelerating A star, HIP 109427, with the Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) instrum…
An H-band Vector Vortex Coronagraph for the Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme-Adaptive Optics System
Jonas Kühn, Eugene Serabyn, Julien Lozi +11
The vector vortex is a coronagraphic imaging mode of the recently commissioned Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme-Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) platform on the 8-m Subaru Telescope. This mult…
VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV): The public ESO near-IR variability survey of the Milky Way
D. Minniti, P. W. Lucas, J. P. Emerson +63
We describe the public ESO near-IR variability survey (VVV) scanning the Milky Way bulge and an adjacent section of the mid-plane where star formation activity is high. The survey…