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20122025
most citedA survey of the high order multiplicity of nearby solar-type binary stars with Robo-AO

275 citations · 651 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

astro-ph.IM2025

Test and Calibration of the Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) on board Aditya-L1

Janmejoy Sarkar, VN Nived, Soumya Roy +52

The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) on board the AdityaL1 mission observes the Sun in the 200-400 nm wavelength range. This paper presents the results of various on grou…

astro-ph.SR2025

The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope on board Aditya-L1

Durgesh Tripathi, A. N. Ramaprakash, Sreejith Padinhatteeri +75

The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) is an instrument on the Aditya-L1 mission of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched on September 02, 2023. SUIT conti…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 2 cited

Noise Characterization of IUCAA Digital Sampling Array Controller (IDSAC)

Sabyasachi Chattopadhyay, A. N. Ramaprakash, Bhushan Joshi +11

IUCAA Digital Sampling Array Controller (IDSAC) is a flexible and generic yet powerful CCD controller which can handle a wide range of scientific detectors. Based on an easily scal…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 28 cited

Know The Star, Know the Planet. IV. A Stellar Companion to the Host star of the Eccentric Exoplanet HD 8673b

Lewis C. Roberts, Brian D. Mason, Christopher R. Neyman +28

HD 8673 hosts a massive exoplanet in a highly eccentric orbit (e=0.723). Based on two epochs of speckle interferometry a previous publication identified a candidate stellar compani…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 275 cited

A survey of the high order multiplicity of nearby solar-type binary stars with Robo-AO

Reed L. Riddle, Andrei Tokovinin, Brian D. Mason +12

We conducted a survey of nearby binary systems composed of main sequence stars of spectral types F and G in order to improve our understanding of the hierarchical nature of multipl…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 100 cited

High-efficiency Autonomous Laser Adaptive Optics

Christoph Baranec, Reed Riddle, Nicholas M. Law +10

As new large-scale astronomical surveys greatly increase the number of objects targeted and discoveries made, the requirement for efficient follow-up observations is crucial. Adapt…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 142 cited

Robotic Laser-Adaptive-Optics Imaging of 715 Kepler Exoplanet Candidates using Robo-AO

Nicholas M. Law, Tim Morton, Christoph Baranec +12

The Robo-AO Kepler Planetary Candidate Survey is designed to observe every Kepler planet candidate host star with laser adaptive optics imaging to search for blended nearby stars,…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 3 cited

Rise of the machines: first year operations of the Robo-AO visible-light laser-adaptive optics instrument

Christoph Baranec, Reed Riddle, Nicholas M. Law +11

Robo-AO is the first autonomous laser adaptive optics system and science instrument operating on sky. With minimal human oversight, the system robotically executes large scale surv…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 48 cited

Characterizing the Cool KOIs. V. KOI-256: A Mutually Eclipsing Post-Common Envelope Binary

Philip S. Muirhead, Andrew Vanderburg, Avi Shporer +23

We report that Kepler Object of Interest 256 (KOI-256) is a mutually eclipsing post-common envelope binary (ePCEB), consisting of a cool white dwarf (M = 0.592 +/- 0.089 MSun, R =…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 17 cited

Bringing the Visible Universe into Focus with Robo-AO

Christoph Baranec, Reed Riddle, Nicholas M. Law +13

Light from astronomical objects must travel through the earth's turbulent atmosphere before it can be imaged by ground-based telescopes. To enable direct imaging at maximum theoret…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 19 cited

Millions of Multiples: Detecting and Characterizing Close-Separation Binary Systems in Synoptic Sky Surveys

Emil Terziev, Nicholas M. Law, Iair Arcavi +15

The direct detection of binary systems in wide-field surveys is limited by the size of the stars' point-spread-functions (PSFs). A search for elongated objects can find closer comp…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 17 cited

Robo-AO: autonomous and replicable laser-adaptive-optics and science system

C. Baranec, R. Riddle, A. N. Ramaprakash +11

We have created a new autonomous laser-guide-star adaptive-optics (AO) instrument on the 60-inch (1.5-m) telescope at Palomar Observatory called Robo-AO. The instrument enables dif…