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A NICE (Nulling Interferometry Cryogenic Experiment) update: Beyond 1e-5 and towards cryogenic operation
Jonah T. Hansen, Thomas Birbacher, Germain Garreau +10
The Nulling Interferometry Cryogenic Experiment (NICE) is a mid-infrared laboratory testbed at ETH Zürich that aims to not only reproduce the deep () broadband nul…
Exploring Exoplanets with Interferometry
Sascha P. Quanz, Bertrand Mennesson, Charles Beichman +27
(Extract from the Executive Summary) Humanity stands at the threshold of answering one of its most profound questions: Does life exist beyond Earth? Ongoing and upcoming space miss…
A preliminary exploration of the effects of baseline length for the LIFE space mission
Jonah T. Hansen, Thomas Birbacher, Felix A. Dannert +7
By aiming to find and characterise dozens of habitable exoplanets through the technique of nulling interferometry, the LIFE space mission will produce transformational science. One…
The VLT/ERIS grating vector Apodizing Phase Plate coronagraph
M. A. Kenworthy, F. A. Dannert, J. Hayoz +29
We describe the design, laboratory manufacture, and on-sky testing of the grating vector apodizing phase plate (gvAPP) coronagraph for the Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrogra…
The Nulling Interferometry Cryogenic Experiment (NICE): Architecture, requirements, and preliminary warm precursor results
Thomas Birbacher, Jonah T. Hansen, Felix A. Dannert +6
The success of the Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE) space mission depends on measuring the faint mid-infrared emission spectra of exoplanets while suppressing the glare o…
Robust Data Interpretation for Perturbed Nulling Interferometers via Proper Handling of Correlated Errors
Philipp A. Huber, Felix A. Dannert, Romain Laugier +4
The detection and atmospheric characterization of potentially habitable, temperate terrestrial exoplanets using a space-based mid-infrared nulling interferometer is a major goal of…
Consequences of Non-Gaussian Instrumental Noise in Perturbed Nulling Interferometers
Felix A. Dannert, Philipp A. Huber, Thomas Birbacher +6
With the astrophysics community working towards the first observations and characterizations of Earth-like exoplanets, interest in space-based nulling interferometry has been renew…
The VLT/ERIS vortex coronagraph: design, pointing control, and on-sky performance
Gilles Orban de Xivry, Olivier Absil, Robert J. De Rosa +14
The Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph (ERIS) is the new near-infrared instrument at the VLT-UT4. ERIS replaces and extends the observational capabilities formerly provide…
Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): XI. Phase-space synthesis decomposition for planet detection and characterization
Taro Matsuo, Felix Dannert, Romain Laugier +3
A mid-infrared nulling-space interferometer is a promising way to characterize thermal light from habitable planet candidates around Sun-like stars. However, one of the main challe…
The Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph for the VLT
R. Davies, O. Absil, G. Agapito +81
ERIS, the Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph, is an instrument that both extends and enhances the fundamental diffraction limited imaging and spectroscopy capability for t…
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…